Iraq: the parties resulting from the popular movement of 2019 make a breakthrough in the legislative elections
Employees of the Iraqi Election Commission compile the results of the legislative elections on October 10, 2021 in Baghdad.
AP - Hadi Mizban
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In Iraq, the first results announced by the Electoral Commission put the influential Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr well in the lead.
Parties close to Iran backed by paramilitary groups have reportedly lost more than half of their seats.
As for the new parties, resulting from the popular movement of 2019, they achieved a remarkable breakthrough with ten seats.
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With our correspondent in Baghdad,
Lucile Wasserman
Two years ago, they were in tents in Tahrir Square in Baghdad demonstrating against the government.
Today, they are entering Parliament.
Members of Emtidad, one of the parties formed after the 2019 uprising, do not hide their joy.
"
We are happy that the demonstrators now have a loudspeaker in Parliament and the first act we will do will be to find the people who killed the demonstrators,
" said a member of the party.
He assures him, the members of the party will not accept any government post and will form a real opposition force, to represent the demonstrators of October 2019. “
We will stick to our plan which is not to do alliances with corrupt political parties which have only squandered public funds
”.
But the protest movement was divided in two years.
Many demonstrators decided to boycott the poll this Sunday and not to support these parties.
Hassanein, 32, was one of them.
“
These political parties do not represent the ambition of all the demonstrators and the Iraqi youth.
Me
I boycotted the election
because I think that the electoral environment is very bad,
launches there.
Afterwards, if they can fix Iraq, then so much the better, I hope.
"
A mixed hope, but a hope nonetheless, when nearly 60% of Iraqis did not go to the polls this Sunday.
The sign of great disillusionment among the population.
► To read also: The current of Moqtada al-Sadr would obtain the relative majority in Parliament
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