As soon as it was announced that Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi was chosen to head the new Iraqi government yesterday evening Saturday, hundreds of protesters went to Tahrir Square to express their rejection to him, holding the Iraqi flags and pictures of Allawi crossed out in red as an expression of his rejection, and the protesters chanted, saying "Allawi is rejected", "He withdrew, the people no He wants you! ".
The 65-year-old former Minister of Communications announced in a video posted on social media that he was appointed by President Barham Saleh to form the new government after an agreement between the ruling political blocs.
In a report in the French newspaper Le Monde, the writer Helen Solon pointed out that Allawi's statements were like a helping hand extended to the demonstrators. At present".
However, from Baghdad to the protest areas in the south, Allawi was rejected unanimously.
Abdullah, a 29-year-old worker and stationed in Tahrir Square since last October 25, justified Allawi's refusal that he was linked to the ruling parties, adding, "We do not want him."
His colleague, Muntadher, a 23-year-old student, said he was determined to continue demonstrating "to death", saying, "The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, proposed Allawi's name without taking our opinion into consideration and without the slightest respect for the bloodshed of martyrs."
| This is how the protesters in Basra expressed their refusal to assign Allawi (Reuters) |
The goal is to overthrow the system
The author indicated that since the protest movement was launched last October, the protesters have not surrendered. They are calling for a "fall of the regime" that was established after the US occupation in 2003, and which is dominated by Shiite parties, most of whom are loyal to Iran, as well as the renewal of the political class that is considered Inefficient and corrupt.
The demonstrators do not accept Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, who headed the communications ministry for two terms, despite his resignation from his post in protest against the failure of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to fight corruption.
Regarding the selection of Allawi, the newspaper indicated that it came as a result of a lengthy negotiation agreement between the two largest Shiite political groups in Parliament, namely the "Saeron" coalition loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Al-Fatah bloc headed by Hadi al-Amiri and representing the crowd factions.
For his part, Muqtada Al-Sadr welcomed the appointment of Allawi and ignored the demonstrators' rejection of him, saying that this would lead to a way out of the political crisis in the country.
| Protests in Najaf to express Allawi's refusal as prime minister (Reuters) |
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The newspaper reported that two hours before the announcement of Allawi's appointment, hundreds of hundreds of Muqtada al-Sadr's Saraya al-Sadia militia arrived at Tahrir Square, and dozens of them stormed the "Turkish Restaurant" building where the protesters were barricaded.
The "armed" Peace Brigades removed the protesters from there, removed the banners of the demands, threw mattresses and blankets, and located inside the building.
After that, a number of demonstrators gathered in a tent inside Tahrir Square, and one of them said, "Let's allow Sadr supporters to play the role of the police in the sit-in if this is what they want, but we will not let them control our movement."
While another protester considered what the supporters of al-Sadr had done "a stab in the back," indicating that he intends to go to Nasiriyah (south of the country), saying that "Nasiriyah has become the center of the protest from now on, it has remained loyal to the people."