The head of the main Sunni bloc in parliament called Tuesday for the Sunni speaker of parliament to step down to promote stability within the unity government after Shiite and Kurdish parties insisted on his removal.
Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Iraqi Accordance Front, said he has not heard from speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani in several days and did not know if he planned to step aside. Al-Mashhadani, a member of the bloc, was quoted Tuesday by The New York Times as saying he was considering resigning.
If al-Mashhadani ``is ready to submit his resignation ... this is good and will help a lot in avoiding a crisis in the country,'' al-Dulaimi said. ``He has not talked to us in this regard yet and of course we will agree with the majority opinion.''
``Iraq must return to the Arab arena and its Arab neighbors and must begin building the bridges of peace of which the Iraqi people were deprived,'' he said.
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