At least 100 protesters and 25 members of the security forces were injured in protests on Saturday.
Tensions are rising in Iraq. This Saturday, thousands of supporters of influential Shia political leader Moqtada Sadr re-entered Iraq’s parliament after a day of protests in a country plunged into deep political crisis. At least 100 protesters and 25 members of the security forces were injured in protests in which police responded with tear gas to stones thrown by the crowd.
The Speaker of Parliament, Mohamed Al Halbusi, announced in a statement “the suspension of all parliamentary sessions until further notice” and called on protesters to “maintain state property”. On Friday evening, supporters of Moqtada Sadr searched the offices of Maliki’s Daawa party in Baghdad, as well as the offices of the Hikma Current, the formation of Shia politician Ammar Al Hakim, who is said to be part of the Coordination Framework. of safety.
The situation in the country worries the European Union, which issued a statement on Sunday expressing its concern over the wave of protests. “We are concerned about the ongoing protests and their possible escalation in Baghdad. We urge all parties to exercise restraint to prevent further violence,” they report from Brussels. The organization “invites the political forces to solve the problems through constructive political dialogue within the constitutional framework”, adds the note, which ends by recalling the “right to peaceful protest”, although always out of the question. “respect for the laws and state institutions”. .
The UN has also responded to the destabilization of the country. For example, its Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for “immediate measures to reduce tensions” and the formation of “an effective national government, through an inclusive and peaceful dialogue, which can immediately meet the demands for reform” .
The cleric, whose Sayyrun coalition won parliamentary elections last year, spent months denouncing the inability of the rest of the political forces to form a new government, assuring that the pro-Iranian group to which candidate Al Sudani belongs, Marco de Coordinación, a major defeated in the elections, should not be present in the new executive. However, and after the resignation in June of the Sadrite parliamentary bloc due to the blockade in the negotiations, the pro-Iranian group decided to take a step forward and put forward the former minister of Labor and Social Affairs as a candidate.
Iraq is already going through the longest period of government negotiations since the first elections in 2005 under the auspices of the United States, a situation that has left both the population and the political class of the country in a state of permanent frustration and the second largest oil producer to reap the corresponding benefits of rising crude prices.
Source: La Verdad
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