The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, expressed, on Tuesday, his great happiness with what he said “passed into his heart” from the tangible response “from the independent brothers” following his last tweet, and pledged to “repay the favor” to them as soon as possible.
— Muqtada al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (@Mu_AlSadr) March 22, 2022
Al-Sadr had indicated in a previous tweet that the current elections “resulted in many independent representatives”, especially in the “Shiite regions” of Iraq.
In that tweet, Al-Sadr demanded a departure from the “neck of consensus” to the “majority space” in calls consistent with his previous demands to form a majority government in which those who do not participate will turn to the opposition.
— Muqtada al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (@Mu_AlSadr) March 21, 2022
Al-Sadr said in the last tweet that the return of the favor would be through “restoring the wounds” and “striving to unite their ranks,” adding that he “no longer hopes for a long life,” and said that he would seek, in the remainder of his time, to “destroy the schemes of the corrupt.”
Al-Hurra was unable to find official confirmations from independent representatives that they would vote for the majority candidate, but Iraqi news websites quoted the head of the extension bloc, Alaa Al-Rikabi, as saying that “consensual governments” were a cause of corruption and that he stood by the majority government project.
While Al-Rikabi said that his bloc will not be absent from next Saturday’s session of the Iraqi parliament, which is supposed to witness a vote on the president of the country, large blocs, including the “coordinating framework”, a gathering of Shiite blocs, most of which have armed factions, said that more Eighty of his deputies may not attend the session to allow more time for negotiations.
Legal problems led to obstructing the election of a new president for Iraq, which entered the country into a constitutional vacuum due to exceeding the period specified for electing a president, but this vacuum is considered a regular occurrence in most new Iraqi governments.
