The process is aimed at producing direct elections for a full-term government by the end of 2005.

Elections for a full-term government by the end of the year would then have to be delayed as well.

Elections for a full-term government are supposed to take place at the end of 2005.

That would in turn push back the elections for a full-term government.

The largest bloc in Parliament has the constitutional right to pick a prime minister, who will lead the country's first full-term government.

Elections for a full-term government are planned for the end of 2005.

They might then have a better chance of leading a coalition and forming the first full-term government to take office under the country's new Constitution.

A national referendum on the draft is to be held in October, with elections for a full-term government at year's end.

If the voters approve it, elections for a full-term government are to be held in mid-December.

The winners will form Iraq's first full-term government since the war began, and face the task of unifying an increasingly fractious and violent nation.