The Iraqi outgoing prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday vowed to fix the mistake that Haidar al- Abadi was nominated as the new prime minister, charging the nomination was a dangerous violation to the country's constitution.

The mistake is a setback which will be fixed as the political process is heading the right direction, Maliki said in a televised speech.

Maliki confirmed that his bloc has filed a lawsuit to the court and his bloc has all the needed evidences to prove that the State of the Law coalition is the largest bloc in the first session of the parliament, according to the constitution.

"The external collaboration was disclosed when we rejected the constitutional violation, the American Administration stood at the side of those who violated the constitution," Maliki said, accusing his political rivals of collaborating with the United States to confiscate the elections results.

Maliki's remarks came after the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden phoned Haidar al-Abadi and conveyed the Obama administration's congratulations to Iraq's new leadership. The two leaders discussed implementation of the bilateral Strategic Framework Agreement.

"Haidar al-Abadi is only representing himself and does not represent the State of the Law Coalition," Khalaf Abdul Samad, a member of Maliki's Dawa Party, read a statement this afternoon, saying that he has no legitimacy.

Earlier in the day, the Iraqi President Masoum asked Haidar al- Abadi, deputy speaker of the Parliament and a member of Dawa Party, to form the next government.

The state-run Iraqiya channel showed Masoum signing the letter, granting Abadi, the Shiite coalition's nominee for prime minister, the power to form the next government.

Maliki has been under growing pressure to give up his attempt for a third term, as the National Alliance, a Shiite bloc, which includes Maliki's State of the Law, sees that the next prime minister must be accepted by other political factions, including the Shiites, the Kurds and the Sunnis.

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