The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, called on the Sadrist bloc to prepare to resign from the House of Representatives (Parliament) if their presence was an obstacle to forming the expected government.
He said in a televised speech that Iraq needs a government that serves its people, and stressed that it will not be part of a consensual government, and that what he seeks is a national majority government.
Al-Sadr accused the Iraqi political class that participated in the elections of retracting their statements after previously agreeing that the reform of Iraq would only be through a national majority government.
He said that the failure to form a national majority government in Iraq "pushes us to one of two options, either the opposition or the withdrawal."
Al-Sadr said, "I was not interested in anything from the authority or anything from politics," noting that "I only asked to expose every corrupt tyrant and restore the people's honorable right, and I was neither Eastern nor Western."
He added, "Since most people have forgotten the suffering of the people as a result of what they call the political blockage, I will not forget or ignore that. All I want is the people's dignity, security, sustenance and righteousness," explaining that "from here it became necessary for me not to participate with them so that Iraq would return to the top (...) Corruption and dependency, so I decided to stay in the parliamentary opposition, so they were not able to form the government, and what they call a political blockage and I call it the artificial blockage remained.
Walid Ibrahim, the director of Al Jazeera's office in Baghdad, commented on Al-Sadr's speech, saying that Al-Sadr's call for members of his bloc to resign is a new and dangerous development, which will open the door to many scenarios that no one knows where they will end up with, including holding new elections, which is not easy. , where it will be accompanied by a constitutional amendment, or the creation of a new electoral law.
More than 7 months after the legislative elections that took place last October in Iraq, government institutions are still experiencing paralysis with the inability to elect a president for the country, as Parliament - with the attendance of more than two-thirds - must elect a new president for the country, who then assigns a president Ministers form the government.
Pending a way out of the impasse, the outgoing President Barham Salih, the candidate for a new term, and Prime Minister Mustafa Kazemi, continue to conduct business.