The Coordination Framework Alliance - which includes Shiite political forces with the exception of the Sadrist movement - called on all Iraqi political forces to participate in the dialogues to form a strong government.
He pointed out that the next stage calls for accelerating the initiation of steps to complete the constitutional dues, and to form a harmonious government.
The coalition had said that it respected the Sadrist bloc's decision to resign from the House of Representatives, and that it was continuing its dialogues with everyone to form an alliance that would lead to the nomination of a new government.
The Presidents of the Republic, Barham Salih, Ministers Mustafa Al-Kazemi, and the Supreme Judiciary, Fayek Zeidan, also called on all political forces to work for reunification and unity.
The presidents added, in a joint statement after a meeting in which the current political scene was discussed, that they agreed to urge the elites and all media and cultural activities to calm down.
Al-Fayyad confirmed that the "crowd" will not be a political party and will not take sides with any party against another in Iraq (Al-Jazeera)
The crowd is on the fence
For his part, the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Faleh al-Fayyad, said that the crowd will not be a political party, and will not take sides with any party against another in the country.
Al-Fayyad stressed the need to confront foreign attempts to exploit differences in order to target Iraq's stability.
In turn, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi said that the option of dissolving parliament and holding new legislative elections has not been presented by any of the political forces so far.
During a press conference on the sidelines of his visit to Jordan, Al-Halbousi said that the ball is now in the court of the political forces to form a new government that will bear its responsibilities before the Iraqi street.
Regarding the next step, Al-Halbousi said that according to the electoral law and the mechanisms of electoral action, the losers (who obtained the highest number of votes) in each electoral district will be compensated instead of the Sadrist bloc’s representatives who resigned.
The electoral law stipulates that, upon the resignation of a representative, the position of the resigned representative with the second largest number of votes in his district shall take over.
On Sunday, deputies of the Sadrist bloc (73 out of 329) submitted their resignations at the request of al-Sadr, amid an ongoing political crisis since the early legislative elections that took place last October.
The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, described the step as "a sacrifice on my part for the sake of the homeland and the people to rid them of an unknown fate."
It is noteworthy that Iraq did not witness the formation of a new government after the recent parliamentary elections, as the Sadrist bloc sought to form a national majority government that includes the top winners from the (Sunni) Sovereignty Alliance led by al-Halbousi, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani, but the bloc was unable to form a government because of the insistence of The other Shiite blocs in the Shiite Coordinating Framework bloc have to form the blocking third coalition in Parliament to prevent the completion of naming a new president for the country and forming the new government.