BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq's Shiite politicians postponed on Saturday the nomination of a new prime minister for the first full-term government to Sunday, a member of the Shiite alliance said.

    "The decision will be taken tomorrow as more discussions are needed on the candidate," Jawad al-Maliki, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Dawa Party, told reporters.

    Politicians of the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shiite bloc, held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the nomination of a prime minister for the coming government after Shiites were confirmed as a victorin the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.

    Many Shiite leaders of the umbrella group gathered in the luxurious villa of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim in Baghdad's southern district of Jadriyah to discuss the nomination.

    The race for the post was expected to be run between outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who heads the Dawa party, and Mehdi, who heads the Hakims' Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).

    Politicians against the outgoing Jaafari argued that he failed in cracking down on insurgency and Sunni Arabs accused his Interior Ministry of sanctioning Shiites' military-style forces to kidnap or kill Sunnis, including clerics, a charge denied by the ministry.

    Iraq's elections commission announced on Friday the certified final results of the Dec. 15 elections, which confirmed the Shiite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance, remained the largest bloc in the new 275-member parliament with 128 seats. Enditem