Protests in Iraq widened yesterday, with student demonstrations and sit-ins in the south of the country, after Baghdad broke last night, cars, trumpets and songs, curfew imposed by the army, while Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, the resignation of his government to get an agreement between the leader of the Sadr movement Muqtada al-Sadr And the leader of the conquest parliamentary bloc Hadi al-Amiri.
Crowds of demonstrators flocked yesterday to Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, which has been occupied by protesters since last Thursday night, and chanted slogans against the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi. , Which includes government headquarters and embassies.
Elsewhere in the country, tens of thousands of demonstrators demanded for the sixth day in a row the "overthrow of the regime", a new constitution, and an end to a regime established 16 years ago, after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Thousands of male and female students refrained from going to schools, while all departments in Hilla, Diwaniya, Kut and Nasiriyah were closed. Sit-ins and demonstrations.
The city of Karbala, about 100 km south of Baghdad, witnessed the night of violent protests.
The popular movement began on 1 October in protest at the lack of basic services, widespread unemployment, and the inability of political authorities to find solutions to living crises. 240 people have been killed and more than 8,000 injured, most by live bullets.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said yesterday that the best way to change the current Iraqi government is to get an agreement between the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr and the leader of the parliamentary bloc Hadi al-Amiri, to change the government without going to early elections anonymous.
Abdul-Mahdi said in a letter to Sadr: «If the goal of early elections to change the current government, there is a shorter way, that is to agree with Ameri to form a new government, then the Prime Minister can resign, and the new government takes office within days, if not say Hours of this agreement. ”
He added: «I think that the political blocs will cooperate extensively to achieve the necessary vote, while the early elections are unknown, when it will be held, and will be agreed on the full conditions, and will come decisive results and other things may leave us in front of large unknowns». He continued: «ballot boxes are the best way to express the opinion of the people».