A parliamentary agreement has been reached between the Kurdish coalition and the (Shiite) alliance on accepting the suggestions of the forces that did not take part in the elections (Sunnis) and it will be announced...

I think to them, they won the election … so it is an opportunity to them to get whatever they want. If I was in their camp, I would have been more generous.

We tried hard to include everybody’s demands, but this could not be done. Some people are still opposed to some points,

We hope tomorrow we can finish this matter. The final day will be when we say this is the constitution draft which everybody agreed on.

It will certainly give the insurgency more chance to do whatever they want to do and the terrorists will benefit from that.

We hope all Iraqis will vote ‘Yes’ to the constitution so that the building of Iraq can begin.

Today with the presence of the National Assembly members, it is considered to be adopted.

If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15.

The new amendments on the draft open wide horizons and give everyone another chance to have a proportional role to participate in the political process to build the new Iraqi government. The political process in...

We found that time was late and we saw that the matters will need another day in order to reach results that please everyone.

The deal is done,

The main bloc in the National Assembly has agreed to make the necessary amendments in the constitutional draft.

They are the largest group in the Shiite community. They will be a force to deal with in the elections. If they run separately, they would get most of the seats in the south.

This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something that keeps Iraq intact, in land and in people.

If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to...

We’ll see how things go in the morning.