SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraq’s Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr met with leaders of Coordination Framework in Najaf on Wednesday, days after the federal court ratified results of the October parliamentary election.
A delegation from the Coordination Framework led by Hadi al-Amiri held a meeting with Sadr at his house in al-Hanana area in Najaf.
The Shia leaders discussed the formation of a new government, according to Iraqi media.
The Coordination Framework includes State of Law Alliance, al-Fateh Alliance, Ata Movement, National Forces Alliance, Haquq Movement and Fadhila party.
Following the meeting, Sadr stressed in a tweet that the upcoming government should be “a national majority government, neither eastern nor western”.
On Monday, Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court ratified the results of the parliamentary election and rejected appeals lodged by al-Fateh Alliance, led by Amiri, derailing their attempt to overturn a vote in which they performed poorly.
The alliance said the electronic voting system had failed to recognize the finger print identification of many votes.
All Iraqi and Kurdish parties announced their commitment to the ruling.
The Sadrist Movement, led by Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, won nearly a fifth of the seats – 73 out of the assembly’s total 329.
The Taqqadum Party, which draws support from minority Sunni Muslims, won 37 seats, according to the final results.
Former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law Alliance won 33 seats, the results showed. A distant second with 17 seats was the al-Fateh Alliance, the political arm of Hashid al-Shaabi.
Under Iraq’s constitution, President Barham Salih should now call the new parliament into session within 15 days.
Since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled minority Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraqi governments have been dominated by parties from the Shia majority, in coalitions that have included Kurdish parties.
