An up-and-coming Kurdish party expects to capture seats in Iraq's next parliament from entrenched rivals, its leader said after Sunday's national poll, threatening to upset the country's most cohesive bloc. A robust showing by the reformist Goran list could hurt the alliance of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) as they prepare to negotiate for a role in the next Iraqi government. Such an outcome could weaken their hand against the Arab-led government in bitter feuds over oil, land and power. The two parties warned they might not accept the election result. Preliminary results in the polls are not expected until Monday at the earliest, but the Goran, which means "Change" in the Kurdish language, predicted it could pick up at least 20 of Iraqi Kurdistan's seats in Iraq's 325-member parliament. "We are expecting to win a large number of seats that the Kurds will get in the Iraqi parliament," Goran leader Noshirwan Mustafa told Reuters in an interview. - Reuters

FPI Director Bill Kristol discussed the elections in Iraq on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday.