Iraqi opposition member wants a Monarchy in Iraq

Member of the Iraqi constitutional royal movement al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein has said that 98% of the Iraqi people want the royal system because monarchy is the best system to settle the crisis caused by the era under the Republican govenment.

In a statement to the Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa published Monday, Bin al-Hussein added that among the "conditions set by the Iraqi constitutional Royal movement is that the Iraqi people decide in a direct and free referendum the system they want."

He explained that the constitutional royal movement aims at giving a chance for the parties to work freely. He added that there is no current alternative to Saddam Hussein and fears of partitioning Iraq are not correct "because all Iraqis stress the unity of Iraq."

He added that there is not even one Iraqi group that wants to partition Iraq and that rumors about that issue are the fabrication and the very creation of the Iraqi intelligence in order to frighten the region and provoke the illusion of such a threat in the circles of the Iraqi opposition.

Al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein is 40. He has a kinship to the ruling royal family in Jordan. He escaped from the revolution of 1958 which downed the regime of his cousin, King Faisal, who was appointed by Britain as a ruler of Iraq in 1921. Al-Sharif Bin Hussein has been living in London since 1958.