SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday has refused the claims in a tweet regarding Sadrist resignation under Iran’s pressure in Iraqi Parliament.
In a statement, Sadr has tweeted said, “we did not take part in the abolition plan of Iraq”
Sadr further accused the pro-Iran factions of abusing Iraq’s judiciary for their own objective. “I demand political parties to play their daring stance for the sake of reform and save the nation,” he said.
Iraq held its last parliamentary elections in October 2021 which Sadr’s party declared a major winner, increasing the number of seats it holds in parliament to 73.
However, political disagreements among parties have hindered the parliament from electing a president and forming a government and electing a new president.
As the result, under the leader’s demand, Sadrist lawmakers had formally withdrawn from the formation of a new government in Iraq. After Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr failed to reach an agreement, particularly with the Pro-Iran parties’ “Coordination Framework”
The Iraqi council of representatives had failed three times to elect a new president since the end of the last general elections, due to a lack of quorum in the parliament that resulted from the conflict and disagreement between the political parties.
Under power distribution system that structured to prevent sectarian conflict, Iraq’s president is a Kurd, its prime minister a Shia, and its parliament speaker a Sunni.
According to the country’s political system, the first step is to elect a president so that they can designate a prime minister to form the government.
