The Prime Minister of Iraq announces a national dialogue table to unblock the political situation in the country

Sep. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mostafá al Kazemi, announced this Monday a dialogue table with the forces and political parties of Iraq with the aim of overcoming the political crisis that the country is going through after the massive protests that left at least 30 dead in the capital. , Baghdad.

The announcement, which was already advanced by the Iraqi media on Sunday, has been forwarded by the Presidency’s office, so the process will take place starting this Monday and throughout the next few days, according to the news agency INA news.

The president of the Iraqi Parliament, Mohamed al Halbusi, said on Sunday that one of the conditions for the national dialogue to succeed is to set the date for early elections in the country, as well as regional elections.

The President of the Parliament pointed out, among some of the demands, that work must be done on the approval of the general State budget and emphasized that the Ministry of the Interior be in charge of the deployment and imposition of security throughout the country.

For his part, the president of Iraq, Barham Salí, already proposed last Tuesday the holding of early parliamentary elections to avoid the chaos resulting from the announcement by the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr about his withdrawal from political life in the Arab country.

More than 30 people died in the latest demonstrations by “Sadrist” supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, after clashes in the Green Zone of the capital, Baghdad, where the main government and diplomatic institutions are located.

Al Sadr, who had spent weeks mobilizing his hundreds of thousands of supporters in Baghdad to the point of having taken over Parliament twice, announced his withdrawal from political life. The cleric had previously demanded the calling of new elections after months of failure to form a government.

Al Sadr’s bloc emerged as the winner of the October 2021 elections, but without a majority. His main rivals, a group of pro-Iranian formations concentrated in the so-called Coordination Framework, proposed a candidate for prime minister, but the cleric rejected him because of his ties to former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki.