SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Shia political parties will hold a meeting in Baghdad on Sunday to discuss results of Iraq’s parliamentary elections, said head of State of Law Nouri al-Maliki.
Maliki, the former prime minister, said the “Coordination Framework” would meet on Sunday evening to discuss the initial results of the October 10 elections.
The group formed by Maliki includes the majority of the Shia forces, except for the Sadrist Movement led by Moqtada al-Sadr.
It will include “all national forces to discuss the crisis of election results and the wave of objection,” he added.
“The meeting will be for the purpose of resolving the crisis, not a political alliance,” he noted.
On October 16, several Shia parties toughened their tone, accusing the electoral commission of not correcting “major violations” in the vote counting, and blaming it for “the failure of the electoral process”, warning of negative repercussions on democracy.
The big winner in the election, with more than 70 spots in the 329-seat parliament, was Sadrist movement of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Al-Fateh Alliance, the political arm of the multi-party Hashid, won around 15 seats in the elections, according to preliminary results. In the last parliament it had 48, which made it the second largest bloc.
In the election’s biggest surprise, Maliki, an ally of Hashid and a figure close to Iran, won more than 30 seats in the parliament.
