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Four months after parliamentary elections, Iraq finally seems to have a viable prime minister-designate in Jawad al-Maliki. Why did the process take so long, and will the remaining negotiations over sensitive Cabinet posts like the Interior, Defense, Oil and Finance Ministries be any easier?

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