Demonstrators prepare for the next step: hold the killers accountable and snap elections soon

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[size=52]Demonstrators prepare for the next step: hold the killers accountable and snap elections soon[/size]

[size=45]Protesters in Baghdad began preparing for the next steps for the protest movement that has entered its fourth month, most notably the preparation for early elections.
[size=45]These preparations came amid the return of the supporters of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, to erect tents again in Tahrir Square, in the center of the capital, a week after the "separation" of the square, following the position of "neutrality" announced by "Sadr" earlier.[/size]
[size=45]Civil activist Ahmed Al-Okaili told Al-Mada yesterday that the demonstrations will continue even after a new Prime Minister is appointed.[/size]
[size=45]And threatens the protest yards, with escalatory steps, if a character is chosen who is far from the conditions set by the demonstrators. "If the new prime minister violates the conditions of the squares, the momentum of the protests will escalate, and the demonstrations will turn into sit-ins," Ahmed al-Okili said. It was supposed to start last Friday, a "millionth" march that starts from Basra to the Green Zone, in the middle of Baghdad, and the journey continues on foot for 14 days, but its date was postponed, for several reasons. At the end of last December, the President of the Republic announced his readiness to submit his resignation, after he refused to submit the candidate of the Construction Alliance, Basra Governor Asaad Al-Eidani, to the position of Prime Minister to Parliament, considering that he is a "dialectical" figure.[/size]
[size=45]In the past months, the demonstration arenas have rejected the names of Al-Aidani, the deputy and former minister, Muhammad Shi'a Al-Sudani, and the minister in the resigned government, Qusay Al-Suhail, to take over as prime minister.[/size]
[size=45]The supreme authority, Ali al-Sistani, called for the end of last year to form a new "non-controversial" government capable of holding early elections "away from the power of arms and external interference."[/size]
[size=45]The protest arenas call for the selection of a "non-partisan" and "impartial" personality, able to confront the parties of power.[/size]
[size=45]The activist Al-Aqili added: "The new prime minister will monitor and support the demonstration arenas, if he is within their conditions, but he must implement several requests." The civil activist continues: "He must prepare the country for early elections in a period of no more than one year, and restore the Elections Law, the Commission, and the Law of Parties," noting that the new prime minister should "hold the killers of the demonstrators."[/size]
[size=45]Return is not furnished with flowers[/size]
[size=45]On the eve of the end of the president’s deadline, which he gave to the blocs and ended with the assignment of Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, Sadr movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr returned to the demonstrations again, after he announced last week that he stood "neutral" towards the protest movement.[/size]
[size=45]Immediately after the Sadrists returned to Tahrir Square, clashes took place with some protesters, which were then refuted.[/size]
[size=45]A group calling itself the "Coordination of the October Revolution" considered the Sadr withdrawal, as a "betrayal" of the protests. The Sadrists dismantled about 50 tents in 6 provinces, most of them in Baghdad, after the decision of the leader of the Sadrist movement, to leave the demonstrations, due to the actions of some of the "abusers", before returning last Thursday evening. "Once again, politicians have failed to form a government, and some are still delaying the demonstrators' demands," Sadr said in a tweet.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr summarized these demands in "the trial of the corrupt with an impartial judiciary, the approval of the election law, the formation of a non-controversial and non-subordinate government with independent ministers, in addition to achieving Iraqi independence and sovereignty and organizing early, fair elections in the coming months." "So I find it in our interest to renew the peaceful reform revolution." There were reports, yesterday, of frictions, between demonstrators and some of Sadr's supporters, in Tahrir Square.[/size]
[size=45]He said, yesterday, to an account of "Ahmed Rabie" on "Facebook", that an hour after the Sadrists returned to Tahrir Square, "a group of Saraya al-Salam (affiliated with al-Sadr) attacked the tents of the protesters," indicating a quarrel between them and the protesters, due to the dispute over broadcasting Al-Sadr's last tweet, on Radio Tahrir In turn, Ahmed Alaa, one of the protesters in Tahrir, told (Al-Mada) yesterday that "the attackers claimed that they belonged to the companies, and they attacked some tents because of chants against Sadr." Alaa added, "Hassan Al-Kaabi, who is responsible for coordinating the Sadrist movement, contained the matter and offered his apology to the tents that were attacked."[/size]


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