Government formation delayed in constitutional ‘Groundhog Day’

Issue 882 - 31 Jul 2010 | 2 minute read

Unable to decide on a mutually acceptable candidate to be prime minister, Iraq's main political blocs have prised open a gap in the legal timetable, stranding the country in a kind of constitutional 'Groundhog Day' in which the clock has effectively stopped.

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