The Iraqi protests reshaped the map of political alliances through the emergence of new entities that retained to some extent the faces of old leaders. Some leaders did not accept the emergence of new currents from the protest squares to correct the mistakes accumulated over 17 years.

The internal and external transformations that accompanied the protests raised many questions about the extent of the popular movement's association with external parties working according to a plot to strike the political system in place since the US invasion of the country in 2003, in addition to targeting the fabric of Iraqi components.

Al-Faraiji believes that the political system after 2003 is governed by forces that possess money and salaj (Iraqi Press)

Chaos portal plot

In this context, the civil activist and demonstrator, Mashreq Al-Freji, in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, considers that the post-2003 political system is governed by forces and blocs that have money and weapons, and this situation is closer than what can be described as the dictatorship stage, and confirms that the dictatorship enjoyed by those parties refuses to compete with a conscious generation with a vision Capable of correcting the situation, these parties resort to terrorizing and intimidating the demonstrators, accusing them of conspiracy and labor.

Al-Faraiji’s opinion intersects to some extent with the opinion of the Al-Fateh Alliance led by Hadi al-Amiri, which supports the peaceful demonstrations that the country recently witnessed, but believes that every protest outside the scope of its peacefulness turns into a conspiracy against the current political system and threatens the security and stability of Iraq, which calls for government intervention to deter chaos As confirmed by the leader of the coalition, Taher Al-Darraji, to Al-Jazeera Net.

Al-Darraji believes that the political forces support the legitimate demands of the demonstrators, but these protests may be classified as a conspiracy if their legitimate demands turn into chaos and confront the security forces directly.

And he confirms that the protests did not produce a clear political product capable of correcting the equation, but there were people who exploited the blood of the victims of the demonstrations seeking to obtain executive positions in the current government headed by Mustafa Al-Kazemi.

Fahmy says that the post-2003 mistakes can only be addressed by completely changing the political system (Al-Jazeera)

Broken solutions

Over the past years, Iraqis began to go out to the streets to demand their most basic rights, which are the most basic of which is fair employment in state institutions, improving electricity service, ensuring access to drinking water, as well as stopping waste, corruption and the wealth of officials at the expense of a people groaning from poverty.

The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, Raed Fahmy, confirms that the demonstrations began after the deterioration of the political and security conditions and the violation of sovereignty, and these challenges made the demonstrators in a direct confrontation with the ruling authority in Iraq.

Fahmy points out that these mistakes can only be addressed by changing the political system completely, especially those forces and parties that have been holding the rule of Iraq since 2003, especially since some of them are unable to fix the deteriorating conditions in the country, so he resorted to launching phrases of betrayal and labor, and believed in the conspiracy theory after his certainty With the ability of the demonstrators to achieve the political and security reform for which they went out.

Al-Azzawi sees the possibility of achieving political change in early elections away from the plot (Al-Jazeera)

Marginalization of ingredients

The October 2019 protests were preceded by many events and protests that began in 2013, which were the demonstrations that took place in the cities of western and northwestern Iraq, and which ended up being controlled by ISIS.

This remembrance of the Iraqi Forces, led by Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi, found its aim when he said that some political forces dealt on a sectarian basis with the demonstrations in the western regions and adopted the principle of treason with the October protests.

In his interview with Al-Jazeera Net, the coalition representative, Abdul Khaleq Al-Azzawi, confirms that previous governments considered the demonstrators of the western regions as terrorists, and this dealings were repeated with the southern demonstrations when they classified the October protests as an international conspiracy.

MP Al-Azzawi believes that political change can be achieved in early elections, away from the political conspiracy, if young people succeed in organizing their ranks through an entity that brings together all protesters.

Commenting on this, civil activist Mashreq Al-Freiji assures Al-Jazeera Net that correcting the current system will not be through conspiracy theory, but rather by demolishing the concepts on which the political system has been built for 17 years, stressing that the protests have produced a young generation capable of managing the current situation.

On the other hand, the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Masoud Barzani believes that the demonstrations are a legitimate right for the rising youth in the southern regions of the country that suffer from a scarcity of drinking water and a lack of services, but the failure of the political forces in Baghdad to address the accumulated errors and their control over the state's capabilities by preventing them from giving birth to a successful political alternative that works. Correcting the course is what causes the blocs to launch a conspiracy theory on the protests.

The leader of the party, Imad Bajlan, told Al-Jazeera Net that some political forces in Baghdad were not satisfied with the theory of conspiracy and betrayal of the demonstrators only, but also worked to export the crisis to Kurdistan by supporting some figures in the region who carried out their agendas by fueling the Kurdish street against the Kurdish political leadership.

Al-Qazwini attributed the accusations against the demonstrators to the inability of the political forces to achieve reform (Al-Jazeera)

Legal framework

The writer and political researcher Bassam al-Qazwini talks to Al-Jazeera Net that the political forces in Iraq have not framed themselves with legal frameworks and have not provided the Iraqi citizen with the main requirements in the security, political and economic sectors, which the demonstrators are calling for reform, and indicates that the inability of the political forces to achieve this reform is what drives them to launch A series of accusations against the demonstrators, in addition to the fact that there are pressure groups that some blocs have resorted to using to intimidate and intimidate the demonstrators in order to stop their participation in the protest squares.