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minister dismissed his rival's call for international help to resolve the country's postelection political crisis as the dispute threatens to inflame rifts and undermine American plans for withdrawal.</p><p> In a televised speech Friday, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, whose political bloc finished a close second behind former premier Iyad Allawi's slate in the March 7 elections, alleged that "regional, international" players were attempting a coup d'etat against his government.</p></div></div><div class="float" style="clear:both;"><img src="/web/20110319175023im_/http://articles.latimes.com/images/pixel.gif" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></div><div id="mod-ctr-lt-in-top" style="" class="mod-adcpc"><script type="text/javascript"> var adSkipCounter = 0; </script> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var loc = window.location.href + ""; var float = ""; google_hints = "political violence new government political crisis";google_ad_client="pub-0227802054925200"; google_ad_output="js"; 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A caretaker government, Allawi said, could oversee the state's affairs before a new government is formed.</p><p> In the elections, the nation's once-dominant Sunni Arabs largely supported Allawi, a secular Shiite Muslim, in hopes of changing the course of the country, which since Hussein's overthrow has been politically dominated by religious Shiite political parties close to neighboring Iran, and by ethnic Kurds, who seek greater autonomy for their region in northern Iraq.</p><p> Allawi's slate won two more seats than Maliki's in the elections, which was praised for its transparency by United Nations and U.S. officials. 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