cautious calm andAnxiety and anticipation prevail in the political and popular circles in Iraq Waiting for the step that the leader of the Sadrist movement will take following his supporters stormed the Green Zone and Parliament, while Iraqi party sources reported that there are calls for demonstrations tomorrow, Saturday.
This comes as the Iraqi security forces began closing the entrances to the Green Zone in the center of the capital, Baghdad. The Baghdad Operations Command announced that it is continuing to close the entrances and exits of the area with concrete barriers. In anticipation of any emergency.
For his part, a spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, said that his country is communicating with its Iraqi partners, but it will not interfere in the issue of forming a government, stressing that it is an “internal issue.”
Price expressed Washington’s readiness to work with any Iraqi government that places the sovereignty of its country and the interests of its people “at the center of its agenda,” calling on the political parties in Iraq to exercise restraint and not to resort to violence in the demonstrations.
Ned Price
Simultaneously, the coordination framework held a meeting within its continuous series of meetings for consultation, and a statement was issued by the framework in which it confirmed the formation of a negotiating team to discuss with all political forces regarding the formation of the government and the completion of the constitutional benefits, provided that the team begins its dialogue rounds today, Friday.
Al-Sadr anticipates the framework’s request to hold a session of Parliament next Saturday in order to choose a president of the republic by inviting his audience to demonstrate once more, which means raising the level of escalation by the leader of the Sadrist movement in the face of his opponents within the Shiite house.
According to analysts, the Sadrist movement will not be satisfied with the demonstrations only, but will also seek to go further by organizing sit-ins that paralyze the work of Parliament, which means that the political forces will not be allowed to share power following it is freed from the constraints of Parliament and the political process that it chose to be outside of.
Some sources talk regarding the reasons that prompted al-Sadr to move his fans towards the Green Zone, the maturity of a Kurdish-Kurdish deal on the position of the Presidency of the Republic under regional sponsorship, which inevitably leads to the assignment of the framework candidate to form the government.