SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Leader of al-Fateh Alliance Hadi al-Amiri said on Wednesday his meeting with Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was “positive”.
A delegation from Coordination Framework led by Amiri held a meeting with Sadr in Najaf on Wednesday to discuss the formation of a new government, few days after Iraq’s federal court ratified results of the October parliamentary election.
The Coordination Framework includes State of Law Alliance, al-Fateh Alliance, Ata Movement, National Forces Alliance, Haquq Movement and Fadhila party.
“The meeting was positive and based on the interest of the state and success in the next phase,” Amiri said in a statement, according to state news agency.
Amiri further said the delegation would return to Najaf in the coming days.
Following the meeting, Sadr reiterated the formation of 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.
