The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said that the Popular Mobilization is not affiliated with either its current or the coordination framework, while the head of the crowd, Faleh al-Fayyad, said that the framework has not yet decided on the early elections.
Al-Sadr explained - in a statement he posted on his Twitter page - that there is what he described as "the camp of the current" and "the camp of the tire", and it does not mean that "our brothers in the popular crowd are affiliated with one of these two sides."
He added that he was certain that they shared the unity of the rank within the heavenly, religious, human and ideological frameworks, stressing that the unity of the rank is extremely important if it is built on real reform, rejecting corruption and the corrupt and holding them accountable.
Al-Sadr had called - in a televised speech yesterday, Wednesday - to dissolve parliament and hold early elections, saying that "there is no benefit from dialogue", at a time when the country is experiencing a political crisis that is getting more and more complicated by the day.
In his speech, al-Sadr called on his supporters to continue their sit-in until the implementation of his demands to dissolve parliament and hold early elections, noting that his demands are a peaceful revolutionary democratic process.
The reactions of the political class in Iraq to Sadr's call were divided between supporters and opponents, in light of calls for a national dialogue with the aim of getting out of the crisis in the country.
Following Al-Sadr's call, Hadi Al-Amiri, the leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance and the commissioner of the coordination framework for dialogue, announced that he supports holding early elections, stressing that this requires a comprehensive dialogue to determine the date and requirements for holding them.
For the sixth day in a row, sit-ins by supporters of the Sadrist movement continue in the Iraqi parliament, in protest against the candidate of the coordination framework to head the new government, Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani.
For his part, the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Faleh al-Fayyad, said that the coordinating framework has not yet taken its official position on the call of the leader of the Sadrist movement to dissolve parliament and hold early elections.
Al-Fayyad added, in an exclusive interview with Al-Jazeera, that the elections require procedures, including agreement on the management of the current stage, because the existing government is a caretaker government and does not have the powers to organize the elections, as he put it.
In turn, the head of the Sovereignty Alliance in Iraq, Khamis al-Khanjar, announced, in a tweet, his support for the contents of al-Sadr's speech regarding early elections according to new criteria and fair laws that allow real competition, as he put it.