The members of the Security Council praised the positive United Nations report on the electoral process in Iraq, and urged all political parties to follow legal and peaceful means to resolve the grievances related to the elections, while the Iraqi political blocs are still in the cycle of choosing between a majority political or consensual government awaiting the announcement of the final results of the elections. .

In a statement issued on Monday, the members of the Council welcomed what they described as the positive evaluation of the international election observers of the United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), and congratulated the Government of Iraq and the Independent High Electoral Commission for holding elections that were "technically well-managed and peacefully" in general. On the tenth of last October.

Council members also welcomed the findings of UNAMI and the Electoral Commission, which found that the partial manual recounts that took place at polling stations matched the IHEC electronic results transmission system.

The statement commended the Iraqi people for their commitment to the electoral process in the face of security challenges.

Council members acknowledged "UNAMI's role in supporting the efforts of the Iraqi government and the Independent High Electoral Commission in planning and implementing free, fair and credible elections, led and Iraqi-owned."

Members welcomed the efforts made by the Iraqi government, the High Electoral Commission and the UNAMI mission to enhance women's political participation.

They commended the UN mission "for demonstrating objectivity in its efforts to support Iraq throughout the electoral process."

The members of the Security Council reiterated their condemnation of both the attempted assassination of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on November 7, and the continuing threats of violence against UNAMI, UNHCR and others, and encouraged all parties concerned to respect the legally defined process and facilitate a judicial review. peaceful and independent electoral appeals, and condemned what they described as attempts to discredit the elections.

The members of the Security Council indicated that they look forward to the peaceful formation of an inclusive government that would advance meaningful reforms that meet the needs and aspirations of all Iraqis, including women, youth and marginalized communities.

Khazali was surprised by the issuance of the UN Security Council statement regarding the elections before the final results were approved (communication sites)

Khazali's surprise

This comes at a time when the Secretary-General of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Qais Khazali, expressed his surprise at the issuance of the UN Security Council statement regarding the elections before the final results were approved. The case of political blockage on the election crisis.

Khazali reiterated - in a statement - that the Shiite coordinating framework forces, which reject the election results, proceeded to follow up on the legal procedures related to the election file and its repercussions.

According to the statement, Khazali presented a set of evidence on the fraud and flagrant manipulation that accompanied the Iraqi parliamentary elections.

For her part, the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Baghdad expressed her response to studying the evidence presented and continuing communication to resolve this blockage.

On the other hand, the protest sit-ins by the masses of Shiite parties and blocs that lost in the elections entered their second month in front of the two gates of the Green Zone in central Baghdad, to demand the disclosure of what they describe as the manipulation and fraud that accompanied the process of announcing the election results.

And the Electoral Commission announced yesterday, Monday, that the manual counting and counting operations it conducted - which included 108 electoral stations in which appeals were submitted - showed a mismatch in the electronic counting and minor differences in only 8 stations, and indicated that minor differences may cause a slight change in the results after the counting.

The Commission's judicial body continues to scrutinize and examine the results and consider the way to deal with the appeals submitted by the political blocs, before approving them and submitting them to the Federal Court.

Al-Sadr seeks to form a national majority government through alliance with Sunni and Kurdish blocs (Getty Images)

form of government

The Iraqi political blocs are still in the cycle of choosing between a political majority government or a consensual government, while local media indicated that the leader of the Sadrist bloc - which won first place in the elections (73 seats out of 329) - Muqtada al-Sadr is determined to proceed with forming a national majority government. Cross alliance with Sunni and Kurdish blocs.

Political and popular reactions to the form of the next government, which will result from the announcement of the expected final results of the early parliamentary elections, varied between those who considered the government of the national majority to be a correction to the course of political action, and those who found that the consensual government was the only way out of the political crisis that resulted from the initial results of the elections.

The politician who won the parliamentary elections, Mishaan al-Jubouri, said - via his Twitter account - "I think that the situation in Iraq is currently not favorable for the political majority government that we have long advocated, and we warn that insisting on it may lead the country to a Shiite Shiite clash, which is not desired by the loyal and eager to Civil peace".

I think that the situation in Iraq is not currently conducive to the political majority government, which we have always advocated, and we warn that insisting on it may lead the country to a Shiite Shiite clash, which is not desired by the loyal and those who are keen on civil peace.

- Mishaan Al-Jubouri (@mashanaljabouri) November 14, 2021

Political researcher Haidar Al-Barzanji wrote - on his Twitter account - that some imagine that young people protesting the election results will leave for a chair that was lost due to fraud, stressing that it is about implementing a "big project and passing laws to sell Iraq through a parliamentary majority that controls the political majority and distorts the compass in A conspiracy that is white on the outside and black on the inside.

What is the difference between the logic of warping and the logic of protest? Some imagine the youth demonstrating for a chair that was lost because of fraud. The truth is not a matter of losing parties. The issue is the implementation of a major project and the passing of laws to sell Iraq through a parliamentary majority that controls the political majority and distorts the compass in a white conspiracy that is apparently internally black

— Dr. Haidar Al-Barzanji (@de_braznjy) November 12, 2021

For his part, the head of the awareness movement, Salah Al-Arbawi - through his account on Twitter - ruled out the tendency of political parties to form a national majority, but rather to what he called a "consensual majority".

From the latter,


neither a political nor a national majority, nor do they grieve

We are going to the agreed majority,


boss your uncle, boss your uncle,


give me my share and here is your share

This system will not return with a majority because it is all problematic,


a new system is needed.

It's been ten years since we've been thirsty and groggy and no one is listening

- Dr.

Salah Al-Arbawi (@SalahAlarbawi) November 14, 2021