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In the aftermath of one of the bloodiest days in a two-month protest movement, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Friday (November 29th) called on the Iraqi parliament to withdraw its trust in the government. The concrete stance of the man most listened to in Iraq prompted the head of the government to resign.
Explosion of joy Tahrir place in Baghdad, epicenter for two months of a challenge that calls for the overhaul of the system and the renewal of a political class deemed corrupt and incompetent. In a statement, the services of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi announced on Friday that the latter would submit his resignation to Parliament. A direct answer, it is specified, to the appeal launched a few hours ago by the great Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
During his Friday sermon, the highest representative of the Shiite clergy spoke directly to Parliament , asking him to act in the interest of Iraq, and reconsidering his support for the government. It is indeed the deputies who appointed the Prime Minister and his collaborators more than a year ago. However, Adel Abdel Mahdi refused so far to resign despite the urging of the street. He has organized a more violent military repression in recent days.
The main figure of Shiite Islam, Ali Sistani believes that the government seems "to have been unable to cope with the events of the last two months ." Earlier, he had already shown his support for the demands of the streets, and urged Baghdad to launch serious reforms. In vain. According to him, attacks against peaceful protesters are prohibited. He also calls on them not to allow the movement to be used to carry out attacks.
The leader of the majority parliamentary bloc, Moqtada Sadr, was already calling for the resignation of the head of the government. But faced with these figures of Iraqi Shiite nationalism, the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani had so far held numerous meetings in Baghdad and Najaf in recent days, in order to tighten the ranks of the political class around Prime Minister Mahdi.
Iraqis bury their dead on Friday; according to Agence France-Presse, which relies on medical and security sources, 46 protesters were killed Thursday in the suppression of demonstrations. Doctors also report that another protester was killed this Friday in Nassiriya, a southern city of fire and blood since yesterday. Which brings to more than 400 the number of deaths in two months of challenge against the power.