Salah Hassan Baban - Al Jazeera Net
Political transformations and sudden turns in the recent political scene in Iraq led to a change in the overall ideas and visions presented, after Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi announced next June 6 as a date for early elections, and his assurance that he will work to make them successful and protect them, and his request to Parliament to send the new election law To the President of the Republic for approval.
The holding of early elections, bringing the corrupt to justice and holding the demonstrators accountable are among the most prominent demands of the protests that took place in Baghdad and the cities of the center and south since last October, and they continued for months and led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of wounded protesters by the security forces and gunmen suspected of links to armed factions.
After setting an election date, the question arises: Will a political gathering emerge from the protests to represent them in the elections?
Quelling the hopes of the demonstrators,
and it is feared that the speeding up of the elections aims to confiscate the demands of the demonstrators, end their hopes of eliminating corruption and its heads, and end the weapon of armed factions and fleeing militias, according to the opinion of a member of the Iraqi parliament, Muthanna Amin, and added that the planned elections will be to occupy and mislead the people only.
The Iraqi MP believes that despair and frustration still dominate the public street, asserting to Al-Jazeera Net that the political class controlling the country's reins for years has built a deep state within the state by possessing weapons and forbidden money, which will enable it to win the vote with the repetition of the reality of previous elections and its own tools.
Amin considered that the demonstrators should demand the retention of the Al-Kazemi government for a longer period to achieve the goal of eliminating corruption and controlling uncontrolled weapons, and not to go to early elections that might drop their demands and their rights forever.
He added that going to early elections would reproduce the current system "especially in light of the presence of an unfair election commission and an unfair electoral law and the deterioration of the situation of the displaced, with the confiscation of the rights of the demonstrators, the most prominent of which is reforms."
He considered that the upcoming elections will be the last opportunity before Iraq turns into chaos and internal fighting because it was marketed as one of the demands of the demonstrators, and he stated that what will happen is the opposite by defrauding them with previous fraud mechanisms with the absence of the reasons for success as a valid and just law and a fair commission with executive measures that prevent forgery and tampering with the votes of voters And give an opportunity for political entities to build themselves in communication with their audiences.
"We want a homeland," and
the Iraqi protests were launched mainly ten months ago in order to change the political system and governance mechanisms, whether related to the legislative or executive authority, with the realization of the dream "we want a homeland" Iraqis feel that they are governed by a system stemming from them.
According to the available data and indicators on the ground, these goals can only be achieved through fair elections that have brought the representatives of the people in a proper way to parliament and the rule of government to change the political system, according to the commentary of political analyst and political science professor Muhannad al-Janabi.
Al-Janabi believes that this responsibility rests with the people, especially young people, by educating the citizen to increase electoral awareness, and encouraging him to choose the best personality and the best bloc.
More than one participating entity and
in his response to Al-Jazeera Net's question about whether angry protests have the appropriate ground and elements for success to form a political bloc or gathering to participate in the elections, Al-Janabi confirms that she owns these elements and has the ability to participate in them, and may be able to achieve its great goal of changing the system of government .
The professor of political science considered that the repeated attempts to penetrate the demonstrations from "militias, armed factions, and some political parties such as the Sadrist movement" were the greatest challenge to their deviation from their peacefulness and national identity, but the demonstrators proved.
He suggested that there be more than one political entity and a political bloc representing the revolution in the upcoming elections to become a major competitor to all the traditional forces that have ruled Iraq for 17 years, so that the people are facing a new identity that "represents the October Revolution" and is present everywhere in Iraq.
Regarding the possibility that the demonstrations will remain peaceful and not belong to any political party if they reach parliament and the government, the activist in the demonstrations in Baghdad and the journalist Ahmed Al-Yasiri commented that the demonstrators possess a democratic and national awareness that the senior politicians in the state do not have.
"Dramatic" meetings, and he
adds that the demonstrators seek to make Iraq have many friendships in the world and not just one country over another.
Al-Yasiri criticized the Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Kazemi, who met only a few demonstrators, describing these meetings as "dramatic" because they did not address the urgent files focused on by the protesters.
He denied that the Al-Kazemi government came as a result of the demonstrations, but rather considered it a government that came after negotiations and skirmishes between internal political parties and to achieve regional balances.