We have a week more to choose the speaker of the parliament and his two deputies and also to discuss who is going to be the president.

The Alliance calls for a rapid restoration of (control of) security matters to the Iraqi government.

I demand a full investigation of this crime.

We suspended today's meetings to discuss the formation of the government because of what happened at the al-Mustafa mosque.

His eminence stressed two points: first, the importance of the Alliance, its survival and its unity, and second, the necessity of adhering to the decisions that came out of the Alliance.

The government needs to act quickly to take control of the security issues and keep it all under the Iraq's control.

We hope they will review their position, because if they do not, it will damage the atmosphere of unity we have in this critical time.

He is definitely not going to step down. He is the only candidate and will continue to the end.

He told the alliance today that it was up to it to decide. Now it will be the alliance which will decide.