Iraqi former prime minister Iyad Allawi on Monday blasted the current government for being ill-equipped to halt the slide toward all-out chaos, and urged a nonsectarian replacement of the regime, AFP reported.
The report says Allawi, whose mixed Sunni-Shiite Iraqi National List this month joined a boycott of the government led by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-MALIKI, told US National Public Radio that the present government is fueling the problems ravaging the country.
“The whole situation is based on sectarianism and is anti-reconciliation,” Allawi said in the interview.
“I think the whole system ought to be changed, and a nonsectarian regime should prevail,” he said.
“MALIKI is part of the sectarian system which is influencing and affecting the country negatively. And we cannot see recovery — political recovery that is to say — if this sectarian system remains operational in the country.”
On August 6, the secular party loyal to Allawi announced it was boycotting cabinet meetings, but that its four ministers would continue daily administrative work.