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The resignation of Adel Abdel Mahdi and his government was accepted by the Iraqi Parliament this Sunday, December 1, 2019 in Baghdad. Anti-regime protesters had been demanding the departure of the prime minister for many weeks.
This parliamentary session had been awaited for two days. It has made it possible to formalize the resignation of the Prime Minister who is no longer at the head of the Iraqi state, reports our correspondent in Baghdad, Lucile Wassermann .
Now opens a period of uncertainty and certainly instability, since the political blocs in Parliament must now agree to approve a new Prime Minister.
We know how much it took time in 2018, almost half a year. Quite simply, because no political bloc has an absolute majority in Parliament and it is therefore necessary to find a politician who makes consensus. That's the first source of uncertainty and instability.
The second is that the protesters are demanding not only the departure of the prime minister, but of all politicians. They do not really want the renewal of the Prime Minister in the current system. They want early elections as soon as possible.
If they see that parliamentarians are working more on the appointment of a new prime minister than on their request, we can imagine that the challenge will take on a new dimension in the days and weeks to come.
More than 400 people have already lost their lives in two months in Iraq and thousands are injured. Bereavement is observed in many provinces of the country this Sunday. A police officer accused of killing two protesters was sentenced to death on Sunday. The authorities, who have since October 1 accused " unidentified gunmen " of targeting indifferent protesters and security forces, have recognized in places " excessive use of force ".
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