Al-Sadr turns the tables in Al-Amiri's house: There is no consensus or factions

[size=52]Al-Sadr turns the tables in Al-Amiri's house: There is no consensus or factions[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, has closed the curtain on the final chapter of the play “Al Tawafuq,” which has been talked about since the end of last October’s poll.
Al-Sadr achieved a wish that began months ago by explicitly declaring the “death of consensus” to hear the Shiite forces, and his emphasis on “dissolving the factions.”[/size]
[size=45]According to sources close to al-Sadr, the latter "rejected calls for choosing a consensual prime minister, dividing ministries according to the sizes of political forces, and the survival of armed factions."[/size]
[size=45]These leaks came after the end of the rare meeting of Shiite forces since former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s first term in 2007. The sources who spoke to (Al-Mada) on condition of anonymity added that “Al-Sadr in the meeting avoided talking with al-Maliki or the leader of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Qais al-Khazali.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Maliki had led a military campaign in which Iraqi and US forces participated in 2007 against the Mahdi Army of the Sadrist movement and its supporters and supporters. The campaign began in Basra and moved to other cities, which led to the killing of hundreds of them and the arrest of hundreds of others who are still languishing in prisons, and a number of them have been sentenced to death.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr accused al-Maliki earlier of reneging on promises made to him to release detainees and close the accused cases. Al-Sadr confirmed in 2010 that he was subjected to external political pressures, in reference to Iran to accept Maliki's nomination for a second term.[/size]
[size=45]Video clips after the meeting that took place at the home of Hadi al-Amiri, the leader of the Badr Organization, showed a cooling of the relationship between al-Sadr and al-Maliki on the one hand, and Khazali on the other.[/size]
[size=45]The so-called "Mahdi Army", which al-Sadr called for its restructuring in 2013, a year before the emergence of ISIS, had clashed that year with Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, led by Khazali, in several areas in Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]Photo before the meeting[/size]
[size=45]A group of what is known as the "coordinating framework", the Shiite forces objecting to the election results, promoted before the meeting that the presence of al-Sadr at the meeting would put an end to the "demonstrations" that have been going on for nearly two months in front of the green gates. But what happened after that is that these groups objecting to the election results rushed to the gates of the governmental region and tried to bring down a number of concrete barriers, after the "framework" failed to persuade al-Sadr to proceed with a consensual government.[/size]
[size=45]Informed sources go on to say, "Al-Attar group asked Al-Sadr to support it in getting out of the election crisis, including choosing a consensual prime minister."[/size]
[size=45]And most of the names circulated in the last days of the position within the coordination framework promoted, which turned “consensual” after the removal of Ibrahim al-Jaafari in 2016 and the inauguration of al-Maliki, is Asaad al-Eidani, the governor of Basra.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Eidani, who leads a political grouping, “Tasmeem,” which won 5 seats in the last elections, appeared in what appears to be a “reconciliation session” with the leader of the Wisdom Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, one of the poles of the strategic framework. And Al-Eidani, whose grouping was also included in the framework, was in 2017 a candidate for the Wisdom Movement for the post of Governor of Basra, before turning against the latter and turning to the Victory Alliance led by Haider Al-Abadi, who later turned against him to line up with the Al-Fateh Alliance.[/size]
[size=45]What did the frame order?[/size]
[size=45]The sources indicated that "the framework requested in the meeting that the electoral votes for each group be preserved in the ministries' quotas as one of the ways out of the political blockage, which al-Sadr rejected."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr tweeted after the meeting with a few words that confirmed this position, and he said in a tweet he wrote on Twitter: "Neither Eastern nor Western..a national majority government." The "Frame" group had issued a statement after the meeting, and said that it "received at Hadi Al-Amiri's house to discuss outstanding issues and the latest developments in the current situation, in order to strengthen the bonds of unity and brotherhood between the people of the same country and in a manner that serves the interest of the Iraqi people, which is a priority for all parties."[/size]
[size=45]The statement added, "The attendees discussed a number of main issues, including taking the necessary practical steps to combat corruption, hold the corrupt accountable, stop the deliberate waste of public money, emphasize the exit of foreign forces according to the announced timetable, and put in place mechanisms to ensure that weapons are confined to the hands of the state."[/size]
[size=45]The statement continued, "It was also agreed to protect, support and organize the Popular Mobilization in a manner that enhances its role in maintaining security in Iraq and criminalizing normalization and everything related to it, and joint work to preserve the constants of the Iraqi people in addressing moral and social deviations in accordance with legal frameworks, and working to raise the economic level of disadvantaged areas and remove Political competition for all service projects and the lifting of the deprived from these areas.”[/size]
[size=45]The statement stressed that "the two parties agreed to continue dialogues and discussions, leading to the development of realistic solutions to the blockage in the political scene."[/size]
[size=45]chest position[/size]
[size=45]However, sources close to al-Sadr confirmed that the latter "did not back down from his position by handing over the factions' weapons to the PMF and restructuring those groups in preparation for their integration with the security forces."[/size]
[size=45]An official close to the head of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, revealed that the meeting that took place at al-Amiri's house was at the request of the first.[/size]
[size=45]The head of the political body of the Sadrist movement, Ahmed al-Mutairi, said in a statement that "Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr's invitation to the brothers in the coordination framework in Baghdad after they refused to come to Najaf (...) is evidence of his transparency and the purity of his heart...".[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mutairi added that "Al-Sadr stressed during the meeting that if the leaders of the coordination framework wish to enter the government, they must hand over the weapons of the armed factions to the Popular Mobilization and hold the corrupt accountable." He explained that "Al-Sadr did not go to Al-Amiri's house for government understandings, but rather to block the pretext for those who say that civil peace may be at risk."[/size]
[size=45]The head of the political body of the Sadrist movement continued, "Al-Sadr assured the attendees that civil peace is a red line for everyone. He also mentioned that the religious authority in Iraq has not met with politicians for a long time, which indicates its dissatisfaction with the political blocs."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "Al-Sadr called on everyone to send a fatherly message, love and apology to the reference and the people, and let us present a government of a national political majority to save Iraq."[/size]
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