SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Shiite coordination framework prepares will hold a mass protest to pressure the parties to accelerate the new government formation after nearly a year since elections, a statement on Wednesday said.
The coordination has formed a committee to oversee the protest and launched the preparations.
“It aims to pressure the political parties to accelerate the new government formation,” a statement from the coordination said.
“It also aims to end the political chaos and disorder which have been generated, hold the corrupts accountable, passing the budget, and avoiding financial crisis with accelerating in the President of the republic election,” it added.
The statement did not further specify the time when the protest takes place.
Iraq held its last parliamentary elections in October but political disagreements among parties have hindered the parliament from electing a president and forming a new government.
The Sadrists won the largest share of seats in the October election, claiming 73 but failed to form a majority government.
MPs belonging to Sadr’s bloc later resigned from parliament and his supporters in August stormed the parliament building in Baghdad. He has demanded that parliament must be dissolved and called for early elections.
Tensions escalated sharply later when Sadr said he would quit politics, with his supporters storming an area in Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in violence that killed 30 people.
Iraq’s political deadlock is now in its 11th month, the longest in the country since the 2003 United States-led invasion reset the political order.
