SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded his party lawmakers to resign from the Iraqi council of representatives, the state news agency INA reported on Thursday.
The leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr urged his party lawmakers to write their resignation from the Iraqi council of representatives and also said “The country’s reform will only take place with a national majority government” according to INA.
Despite his emphasis on forming a ‘majoritarian’ government, Sadr also called upon the ongoing political stalemate in the country as a ‘Man-Made’ situation created by the political parties, INA said.
Iraq has entered a political stalemate since March when the Iraqi parliament failed to elect a new president due to disputes between the political parties.
The country held its last parliamentary election in October 2021 in which Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was declared as the biggest winner of the election.
Following his major wining Sadr declared that they want to form a national ‘majoritarian government’, for that reason, a tripartite alliance was formed.
The Sadrist Movement led by Shia cleric Moqtada and Taqaddum Party of Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) were included in the “Save the Nation” alliance.
While on the other hand other Shia blocs and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) rejected Sadr’s proposal.
The Shiite Coordination Framework and the (PUK) demanded the formation of a government based on consent between all political parties rather than the majority, as the result, “Save the Nation” had failed to form the largest parliamentary bloc and form the ‘majoritarian government’.
Under a power-sharing system designed to avoid sectarian conflict, Iraq’s president is a Kurd, its prime minister a Shia, and its parliament speaker a Sunni.
The country is going through the longest political stalemate since the general elections, eight-month after, the new Iraqi government is not formed yet due to disputes between the political parties.
