Iraqi President, Barham Saleh, received a parliamentary note containing the mechanism for selecting the next prime minister, and his most important characteristics, including that he is independent, and meets the aspirations of the demonstrators, while protesters, yesterday, protested and cut off the roads leading to the oil fields in Basra Governorate, to demand job opportunities.
The deputy of the "Saeron" coalition, Sadiq Al-Sulaiti, said that "a parliamentary movement, which included 170 deputies from different blocs, handed over an official letter to the President of the Republic, the specifications and mechanism of choosing the next prime minister."
He explained, in statements reported by the Iraqi News Agency, that "the Bloc of Saeroun (54 out of a total of 329) is the largest bloc in agreement between the blocs."
He pointed out that «the group of Walkers presented in an official letter to the Presidency of the Republic, that the candidate be independent and satisfactory for the demonstration arenas.
He stressed that «most of the deputies agreed that the candidate be from inside the demonstration squares», indicating that “efficient and independent names will be circulated and presented to the President of the Republic.”
The member of the House of Representatives, Abboud al-Issawi, had earlier revealed a request by Barham Salih, from representatives of 170 deputies, who had received them the night before last, pressuring the leaders of the political blocs, to present an acceptable candidate from the street.
Al-Issawi said, in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency: "We are representatives of a gathering of 170 deputies. We met the President of the Republic and discussed with him the latest developments to nominate a new Prime Minister, and we clarified the position we hold by being close to the demonstrators and we have relations with the coordination of the demonstrations."
He continued: "In recognition of the critical stage, the lack of time and the sanctity of the blood that I asked, we emphasized the insistence on passing an independent, capable and experienced personality, away from the agendas of the parties, and that our gathering will support the next candidate."
In addition, yesterday, the protesters resumed demonstrations and cut off the roads leading to the oil fields in Basra, where witnesses said that hundreds of protesters set out, early yesterday morning, towards the roads leading to the Rumaila, Artawi, Majnoun and western Qurna fields, staged a sit-in, and prevented Vehicles that transport employees to enter the fields. The protesters are demanding a solution to the unemployment crisis and the employment of the unemployed from the regions where the oil fields are located.
The witnesses explained that "the protesters threatened to erect a marquee for the sit-in, unless the corporate departments did not respond to their demands."
According to witnesses, the security forces surrounded the demonstrators, and asked them that the demonstrations be peaceful, in addition to not attacking employees and guards of the oil installations.
It should be noted that cutting roads to oil installations in Iraq does not affect the production and export operations in general, as they are outside the production and export complexes.
This comes at a time when the Iraqi judiciary announced yesterday that the investigative bodies in charge of examining the cases of demonstrations released 2700 detainees from the demonstrators until yesterday morning.