Protesters in Hillah blocked off roads leading into the city and chanted, 'Allawi is not the people's choice!' FMTNews Protest
Anti-government protesters chant slogans while holding posters of newly appointed Prime Minister Mohammed Allawi.
Demonstrators had demanded a politically independent successor who had not served in government and for them, ex-communications minister Allawi did not make the cut. Main highways leading out of Najaf and streets within the city were still blocked off with smouldering tyres on Sunday morning. Kut, about 170 km southeast of Baghdad, saw hundreds hit the streets chanting, “If it’s been tried before, it shouldn’t be tried again!”
Allawi, named as a consensus candidate after months of political paralysis, now has a month to pull together his cabinet, which will be subject to a vote by parliament.
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