The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, announces his withdrawal and his Sadrist bloc from negotiations to elect the president of the republic and form the expected government, and says that by doing so it gives an opportunity to negotiate with all the blocs to form a majority government, without the Sadrist bloc.
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The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr
The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced this evening, Thursday, his withdrawal from the negotiations to elect the president of the republic and from forming the expected government, and to allow the coordination framework to negotiate with the political forces in this regard.
Al-Sadr wrote on Twitter: “God blessed me with the ability to be with those with me the largest winning bloc in the elections, in an unprecedented victory, then we made the largest Shiite bloc or alliance, and then I had to be the first to succeed in Forming the largest national bloc (Save the Homeland) and nominating a prime minister acceptable to all.
He added: “These alliances bothered many, and they obstructed and are still obstructing (the formation of the government). In order for Iraq not to remain without a government and the security, economic, service and other conditions deteriorate, I am giving (the blocking third) an opportunity to negotiate with all the blocs without exception to form a national majority government, from Without the chest mass, from the first day of the month of Ramadan to the ninth of the holy month of Shawwal.
— Muqtada al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (@Mu_AlSadr) March 31, 2022
It is worth noting that The Iraqi parliament failed for the third time Consecutively in holding a session to elect a new president of the country due to the lack of a quorum. In the past two sessions, the dispute intensified between the Triple Alliance (the Sadrist bloc, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Alliance of Sovereignty), and the coordination framework that includes Shiite political forces.
Al-Sadr was decisive in his position regarding the failure to achieve a quorum for yesterday’s session, as he said in a tweet on “Twitter”, addressing the coordination framework, that he would not agree with them, “for consensus means the end of the country. No to consensus in all its forms.”