Both the Sadrist movement and the coordination framework called on their supporters to demonstrate today, Friday, in light of their disagreement over the formation of the Iraqi government and the call for early elections.
Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi, who is close to the leader of the Sadrist movement, called for a mass gathering of al-Sadr's followers, each in his governorate, and to stay there until further notice, and explained that the goal of this move was to fill out legal forms to be submitted to the judiciary in order to dissolve Parliament.
This comes after the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, granted a week-long deadline for the judiciary to dissolve parliament, while Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi expressed his readiness to hand over power to any elected government and at the moment the political blocs agree.
The Sadrist movement's call came after the so-called Organizing Committee for Demonstrations to Defend the State - which is affiliated with the Coordination Framework - called in a statement yesterday evening, Wednesday, the followers of the framework to demonstrate today, Friday, "to defend legitimacy" in demonstrations entitled "The people protect the state."
In its statement, the committee said that the call comes from its belief in the need to stand with the legal and constitutional steps to defend the state's judicial and legislative institutions, and to expedite the formation of a national service government with full powers that works to confront crises and challenges, according to the statement.
In another development, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, agreed with the head of the Sovereignty Alliance, Khamis al-Khanjar, on the need to hold early elections in Iraq, considering this a good step, provided that all parties adhere to their results.
Al-Khanjar office said that the meeting - which took place in Erbil - confirmed coordination and joint action to overcome the political blockage, noting that any new initiative should be aimed at improving the political situation and ending the crisis.
On July 30, hundreds of Sadrist supporters stormed the parliament building in the Green Zone.
Through the sit-in inside the Green Zone, the "Sadr movement" seeks to achieve demands announced by al-Sadr in a televised speech on August 3, which were summarized in a call to dissolve parliament and go towards early elections.
In order for the movement to achieve its goals, its supporters staged a sit-in in the parliament building for 8 days and continued their sit-in in its surroundings, and the movement insists on preventing the passage of the “coordinating framework” coalition government, which is still clinging to its only candidate, Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani, to form a new government.
Al-Sudani is close to Iran, and the leaders of the Sadrist movement describe him as a "shadow" of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and he has previously held government positions, while the Sadrist movement and other Iraqi forces call for choosing a personality who has not held any positions.
This comes 10 months after the last legislative elections and the failure to form a new government, as Parliament failed to hold a session to elect a new president, as well as to choose a prime minister.