Aldin to directly lobby senior UK, US and UN figures on election timing in London, New York and Washington DC
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 00:24
The high profile Leader of Iraq's Ahrar Party, Ayad Jamal Aldin, today announced that he will soon be personally traveling to London, Washington DC and New York for a series of high-level private meetings to lobby for the UN to replace Iraq's Electoral Commission in order to resolve the deadlock over election timings.
"I will be telling the people I meet directly that Iraq's people fresh faces and need new leaders not in the pocket of political factions" Mr. Jamal Aldin said.
Mr. Aldin mission will involve wistlestop visits to London, Washington DC and New York and will also involve speeches to high level political forums linked the Democratic Administration of President Obama.
"I will be telling these people directly what I have put on record before: Our current politicians have been tested and failed. They are not the answer to this problem - they ARE the problem. I will be asking them to join my call for the United Nations to appoint fresh faces to the corrupt and incompetent IHEC."
"I will be putting on the international record that the real Iraq wants new people, whose judgment is not clouded by factional self-interest. New York, London and Washington must be told that is the only way we can see the free and fair vote of the people that Iraq, and the world, desperately needs."
Mr. Aldin has previously stated that "What has happened in Afghanistan shows that the risk of the people's will being corrupted is real and the world should act now - BEFORE the election - to stop the same thing happening in Iraq."
Details of Mr. Aldin's meetings and visits will be released live on his website.
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About Ayad Jamal Aldin:
Ayad Jamal Aldin is a Shia cleric, best known for his consistent campaigning for a new, secular Iraq. He first rose to prominence at the Nasiriyah conference in March 2003, shortly before the fall of Saddam, where he called for a state free of religion, the turban and other theological symbols. In 2005, he was elected as one of the 25 MPs on the Iraqi National List, but withdrew in 2009 after becoming disenchanted with Iyad Allawi's overtures to Iran. He wants complete independence from Iranian interference in Iraq. He now leads the Ahrar party for the 2010 election to the Council of Representatives, to clean up corruption and create a strong, secure and liberated Iraq for the future.