Iraqi police charge in Baghdad against a demonstration commemorating the “October Revolution”

Oct. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Iraqi Police has charged this Saturday against groups of protesters concentrated in the country’s capital, Baghdad, to commemorate the third anniversary of the October Revolution, the uprising that ended the Iraqi government in 2019, triggering the very serious political crisis in the that the country is still in turmoil three years later.

The Tishreen protests, which left at least 600 dead across the country due to the reaction of the Iraqi Police and pro-Iranian militias, broke out in the capital in October 2019 and for several months demanded the end of the system of government in force since the invasion. from Iraq in 2003, an end to corruption, better basic services and jobs.

The then prime minister, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi, initiated reforms to the electoral law and forced parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021; an election in which the cleric Muqtada al Sadr emerged victorious. Until now, however, he has been unable to form a government, his bloc has withdrawn from the negotiations and from Parliament, and the speaker of the chamber, Mohamed al Halbusi, has resigned although, despite this, he has been confirmed in office.

This Saturday, the police charge has concentrated on the Al Jumhuriyah bridge that leads to the Green Zone of the capital, where the country’s main state institutions and international diplomatic headquarters are located, according to the official Iraqi news agency INA.

The protesters began the march in Tahrir Square, where they began to carry Iraqi flags and, as they did three years ago, to chant anti-corruption slogans in the midst of a major police deployment ordered by the current head of government, Mostafá al Kazemi .