The struggle of the elders of the Supreme Council and its youth puts it on the brink of a new schism

The struggle of the elders of the Supreme Council and its youth puts it on the brink of a new schism


 Baghdad / Wael Ne'ma

The Islamic Supreme Council, headed by Ammar al-Hakim, warned against talking about "splits" leading figures within him, preferring to call what is happening in differences of views. Recently, news leaked about the intention of senior leaders in the Supreme Council to split and form a new party, On the readiness of Hakim to dissolve the Supreme Council and the announcement of a new political formation in preparation for participation in the upcoming elections.
The leader of the Supreme Council Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, recently, clearly rejected the continuation of the "Council" in view of what he considered a change in the course of the latter approach of its founder Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. Al-Saghir revealed that the leaders of the council, the two former ministers of oil and transport, Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Bayan Jabr Solagh, share the same objections to the policy of the Council.
The roots of the conflict in the Supreme Council, which was founded in Iran in 1982, are the sharp competition between the generation of veteran leaders and the young generation that Ammar al-Hakim wants to open the way to them. The results of the Supreme Council during the 2014 elections, Entities, a significant drop in the number of votes from the previous ballot.
The leaders of the Hakim bloc hint that the latter will continue in the next elections to push new faces and young as well as efficiency.
The Supreme Council has been sharply criticized recently for its adoption of the "historic settlement" and has been accused of trying to restore Baathist faces and are required to crack down on political action.

Before it's too late !
Information about a meeting of splinter leaders from the Supreme Council with Iranian officials in Tehran has recently leaked to form a new political party in preparation for its next election. As quoted by some media sources not disclosed that the leader of the Council called for an urgent meeting of the Shura Council within his party to remedy the matter and reduce the escalation of schisms in the Council. For his part, denies the leadership of the Supreme Council, Salah al-Arabawi, the news that there is a "schism" in the party the wise. "There are different positions and views from Bayan Jabr Solagh and Jalal al-Din al-Saghir with the council, but they are not yet resolved," he said. "The differences revolve around the vision of these figures to run the council and the role of young people." Council leader Ammar al-Hakim, a 40-year-old man who took over the presidency from his father in 2009, pushed the young leaders clearly in his party. Hakim announced in 2011 a new youth formation called "Knights of Hope". The leader of the Council in August 2011, to change the name of the mass of Martyr martyr to the mass citizen, indicating that the slogan of the Council will see important changes.
The Islamic Supreme Council, by the late Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, who was assassinated in the 2003 explosion, after he was named (Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq), and was changed to the current name in 2007. The leader of the Supreme Council in what is happening within his party, "The democratic atmosphere in the country and the law of the new parties allow this." In reference to lessen the importance of the new schism, Arbawi pointed out that "the Dawa Party broke several times, and the Badr Organization separated from the Council earlier."
The Badr Organization, the military wing of the Supreme Council. It is believed that its secession from the latter in 2012 is due to the opposition of the positions of both parties on the support of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. But observers considered, at the time, that the real reason for the split Badr is due to disagreement over the selection of Ammar al-Hakim to head the Council in succession to his father, who died in the summer of 2009.
The senior leader of the Supreme Council, Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, said that he and the leaders Adel Abdul Mahdi and Hamam Hamoudi came from Ammar al-Hakim to the post. Al-Saghir, who leads the Ansar al-Aqeedah faction in the popular rally, said in a March meeting that he had "been away from political work inside the council since his age." He stressed that "he has a vision different from the President of the Council, and the path of the organization has differed from the approach of its founder Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim."
Al-Saghir claimed during the meeting that Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Bayan Jabr Solagh have the same reservations about the way the Supreme Council is run.

Between the classics and young
In contrast, the small to be the subject of the involvement of young leaders in the ranks of the Supreme Council behind the decision to split. He said that his arrival at the decision to secede from the "Council" came after "long suffering and reached the point of no return." He said he would reveal other secrets about why he broke apart at other times. The minister of transport, who is believed to have been forced to resign last year by his bloc, revealed that he had made observations on the administration of the council a year before his resignation. He said in a televised interview several months ago that he would "not return to political action in the council without approving his remarks." A few days ago, Abdulmahdi decided to debate his position on the Supreme Council and revealed that he would not support splits. "I am not a supporter of splits or axes or written conflicts," said the former oil minister. "I am not against young people or elders. I am not in competition and rivalry with any leader or cadre in the Supreme Council or elsewhere."
"He presented an internal memo to the president of the council in May 2015 to freeze all my organizational activities, coinciding with the knowledge of his Eminence to the letter of resignation from the Ministry of Oil ...".
"The organization needs a clear vision to determine the role of both young and old," said Aziz al-Ukaili, MP from the Supreme Council. "In a statement to Al-Mada yesterday, Okeili warned of the" exploitation by some parties of what is happening in the Supreme Council, Stressing that "those who disagree with Hakim will not go with other blocks." A member of the Supreme Council that "the solution is soon and there is a program will bring all the different." He stressed that "the disappearance of some figures from the Council will not affect his popularity in the elections." The chances of the Council in the last elections, where the coalition citizen, formed by the wise in 2013, consisting of 23 entities, only 29 seats. While the Supreme Council alone, in the 2010 elections, 21 of the 70 seats obtained by the National Coalition, led by the wise also. Salah al-Arabawi that "

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