The officials spoke to news agencies as results from about 35 percent of the 30 January elections showed the United Iraqi Alliance winning some two-thirds of the votes for the 275-seat national assembly.
The bloc led by current interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shi'ite, is in second place.
Sunni Muslims groups who refused to take part in the elections have expressed a willingness to participate in drafting the new Iraqi constitution.
But spokesman Omar Ragheb of the Sunni Muslim Scholars Association said one condition would be that a consensus was found among all political parties on the withdrawal from Iraq of U.S.-led forces.
More than 20 Iraqis and three U.S. soldiers were reported killed yesterday in the latest violence in Iraq.
(Reuters/AP/AFP)
The bloc led by current interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shi'ite, is in second place.
Sunni Muslims groups who refused to take part in the elections have expressed a willingness to participate in drafting the new Iraqi constitution.
But spokesman Omar Ragheb of the Sunni Muslim Scholars Association said one condition would be that a consensus was found among all political parties on the withdrawal from Iraq of U.S.-led forces.
More than 20 Iraqis and three U.S. soldiers were reported killed yesterday in the latest violence in Iraq.
(Reuters/AP/AFP)
