Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated yesterday in the streets of the capital Baghdad and eight governorates to demand the nomination of an independent candidate to form the new government. The cities of southern Iraq witnessed strikes for students and blocking roads in several regions.
In detail, thousands, including university students and schoolchildren, demonstrated yesterday in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, and the governorates of Basra, Nasiriyah, Muthanna, Najaf, Karbala, Wasit, Diwaniya and Maysan carrying the flags of Iraq. On submitting candidates to name the person in charge of forming the government.
After a period of calm in the protests by the campaigns of intimidation, kidnapping and assassinations carried out by "militias" according to the United Nations, the uprising returned to resume yesterday. Eyewitnesses indicated that a large number of cities in southern Iraq witnessed a strike by government departments, schools and colleges were closed except for medical and service institutions, bridges were closed and tires were burned in roads and streets leading to oil and industrial companies despite the heavy deployment of Iraqi forces, coinciding with the end of the deadline set by them Authorities to announce a candidate for prime minister.
In Al-Diwaniyah, groups of demonstrators closed the official departments one after the other, holding up signs saying "We apologize for disturbing you, we work for you", and dozens of demonstrators blocked the highway linking the southern tribal and oil cities with Baghdad, with burning tires.
In Karbala and Najaf, striking students and students closed all schools, and gathered in the thousands in the squares, and in Nasiriyah, the demonstrators cut bridges and several axial roads, while all official departments remained closed, and students of the University of Kufa organized a sit-in in the protests.
The crowds of sit-ins were crowded with protesters, awaiting the announcement by the Iraqi President, Barham Salih, of the name of the candidate to form the government, among the dozens of names nominated for the post. A reference to the rejection of any candidate chosen by political parties and blocs.
While responsible political sources confirmed that Iran is continuing its efforts to pass its candidate Qusay al-Suhail, who was a minister in the resigned government, the street declared his total rejection of Al-Suhail, considering that he is part of a political class that has monopolized the government for 16 years in the country.
And the night before last, protesters in Diwaniya and Basra announced a general strike, after three months of unprecedented protests that killed about 460 people and injured 25,000 others.
A security source said yesterday that two explosive devices exploded in Basra Governorate, in front of the house of an Iraqi citizen, and another one exploded in front of the headquarters of a company, which resulted in material damage without causing human losses.
For its part, the Supreme Federal Court in Iraq announced that the term "the largest number of parliamentary blocs" in the constitution means either the bloc that was formed after the elections through one electoral list, or the bloc that was formed after the elections from two or more lists and entered the parliament, and its seats became clear After entering the Council, and its members took the oath in the first session that was the most numerous of the rest of the blocs, in response to the speech of the Iraqi President of the House of Representatives, in which he requested to be informed of the largest number of parliamentary blocs, registered in the first session of the Council, for the purpose of assigning a new candidate to form a magazine Ministers.