Demonstrators in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, gave Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi a month to implement eight demands, including the trial of his predecessor, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, for the murder of protesters.
This came in a statement read out in the middle of Al-Tahrir Square (the Center for Protests in Baghdad) yesterday, Wednesday, in the name of the "United Fajr Iraq Front", the first organization to emerge from the womb of the protests that started last October.
The statement praised the reformist direction of the Al-Kazemi government, which started its duties last Saturday, two days after it gained confidence from Parliament.
The statement gave Al-Kazemi a month to implement the demands, threatening, if not implemented, to escalate the protests until the entire political process was toppled, at the first deadline of protesters for the new government.
The demands included the trial of the demonstrators' killers - headed by Abdel-Mahdi - to compensate their families, set a date for early elections, and administer retired independent election commission judges.
It also included returning the displaced to their areas of residence, revealing the fate of the missing, in addition to reducing the salaries of senior officials, activating the law of parties, achieving economic and political reform, and abolishing "ineffective" local councils.
In its first session last Saturday, the Al-Kazemi government decided to release all detained protesters, set up a committee to try those involved in killing protesters, and to seek a date for early elections.
The demonstrators in Baghdad - and Iraqi cities in the center and south - last Sunday resumed their anti-government protests and influential parties.
It is noteworthy that Baghdad and other provinces have witnessed since last October, protests calling for extensive reforms in the country, accountability for the corrupt, and interspersed with violence that killed more than six hundred people and wounded thousands, as well as the arrest of hundreds of others, before these protests receded in mid-March / Last March, for fear of an outbreak of the Corona virus.