Rival parties have failed to agree on a successor as the country tries to navigate the protests and rising tensions. FMTNews
Protesters set fire to close a street during clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters near Baghdad’s Khilani square, Iraq.
Faced with pressure from the street and from the Shiite religious leadership, Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi resigned in December after just over a year in office. In a normal situation, parliament’s largest bloc must nominate a prime minister within 15 days of an election, and the candidate is then tasked by the president with forming a government within one month.
One of the most influential voices in Iraqi politics in recent years has been Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, who led the anti-US Mehdi Army militia after the invasion and has since refashioned himself as a populist politician.But he backed the protests when they erupted in October and his supporters were widely recognised as the best-organised demonstrators.
But on Friday he seemed to flip again, calling for his backers “to renew the peaceful, reformist revolution”. Their portraits, marked with large “X”s over their faces, were hanging in the square along with a big blue poster calling for the United Nations to intervene in the crisis.
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