To solve the crisis in Iraq... Al-Sadr proposes excluding all parties from forming the government

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, suggested today, Saturday, that "all parties" give up the government positions they occupy to allow the political crisis in Iraq to be resolved.

Al-Sadr considered his previous demand to dissolve parliament and hold early elections less important now, and added a new demand, in a clear shift in his position.

Sadrist Minister Salih Muhammad al-Iraqi said in a tweet, quoting the leader of the movement, that "there is more important than dissolving parliament and holding early elections," according to what was reported by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

He added that "the most important thing is not to involve all parties and personalities that participated in the political process since the US occupation in 2003 and to this day, including the Sadrist movement."

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He added, "I am ready, within a maximum period of 72 hours, to sign an agreement that includes this," noting that "if this is not achieved, there is no room for reform."

For his part, the deputy of the coordination framework, Aref Al-Hamami, said that "the tweet of the leader of the Sadrist movement needs dialogue sessions and clarification."

The Sadrist movement demands the dissolution of Parliament and the holding of early legislative elections, while the coordination framework wants to hold these elections, but with conditions.

Al-Sadr, who enjoys great influence and whose steps are difficult to predict, has the ability to extricate Iraq from the predicament in which it has been mired since the October 2021 elections, as it has remained since then without a new prime minister or government.

Al-Sadr has raised slogans since the beginning of the crisis, the most important of which is fighting corruption, and his party does not participate in the current government, but it has had influence in some ministries over the past years.

Earlier this August, the current Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi launched a "national dialogue" to try to get Iraq out of the impasse, but representatives of the Sadrist movement and their leader boycotted this initiative, and considered that it "resulted only in some points that do not sing or sing from hunger." .