Maliki’s government is clinically dead

Iraqi former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi Baghdad - Jaafar Al Nasrawi Protests in Sunni-majority Iraqi provinces will not seize unless Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government resigns, Iraqiya List leader and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi  told Arabstoday in  interview on Monday. He stated that the government is "clinically dead" adding: ‘’The government should resign in order to form a reduced government that can oversee early elections without allowing its members to participate in these elections.” Allawi believes that the present government is responsible for the bloodshed of Iraqis and has failed on "all fronts." The head of the Iraqiya list called for the immediate resignation of Maliki, the current prime minister who has been in power since 2006. Allawi, a secular politician of Shiite roots, heads a party led by mostly Sunni politicians. In 2004, he served as head of the government in the framework of an agreement sponsored by the United States. The former prime minister emphasised the need to implement the Erbil agreement, adding that the United Nations should not ignore what is happening in Iraq, Syria and Palestine. Sectarian violence in Iraq has escalated this year. A report released by the United Nations stated that more than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May. This week multiple bombings destroyed Shiite and Sunni areas of Baghdad, killing nearly 100 people.