Can Dr Ibrahim al-Jaafari do better as prime minister this time round? Few Iraqis are inspired by their current and likely future prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Yet last week he won, by a single vote, the nomination of the ruling Shia-led alliance to head Iraq's government for another four years. In public he is rather dull. He tends to mumble. He prefers to let his coalition partners make distinct statements of policy. In private, many politicians find him passive but stubborn: a frustrating man with whom to cut a deal.
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