The framework tests al-Sadr by retracting from early elections, and al-Maliki vows to take up arms

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[size=52]The framework tests al-Sadr by retracting from early elections, and al-Maliki vows to take up arms[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The coordination framework reaches the highest ceiling in an attempt to drag Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Sadrist movement, out of the state of political silence by retracting early elections.[/size]
[size=45]Politicians and party observers are calling for lawsuits against the authority's evasion of the pledge of early elections stipulated in the government's program.[/size]
[size=45]The “framework” that started punching against the idea of ​​early elections, as described by one of the politicians, wants to get answers as to whether this retraction will anger al-Sadr or the street.[/size]
[size=45]So far, the reactions against these strikes are close to zero, which seems to have encouraged the Popular Alliance to declare publicly that there is no point in early elections, according to one of the leaders of the "frame".[/size]
[size=45]The Shiite alliance was the first to raise the demand for early elections in the days of its objection to the results of the legislative elections in 2021.[/size]
[size=45]At that time, Al-Attar had suffered a loss of more than 50 seats in the 2018 elections, and the Shiite coalition considered at that time that the results were fraudulent.[/size]
[size=45]Supporters of the "Attar" staged a sit-in for two months in front of the Green Zone, rejecting the results, and the coalition leaders accused the Gulf of tampering with the results.[/size]
[size=45]After the Federal Court approved the results in late 2021, and then al-Sadr withdrew from the political process, the “framework” suggested that he form a government, on the condition that elections be held after one year.[/size]
[size=45]Rahim al-Darraji, a former deputy, said in an interview with (Al-Mada): “With regard to the legislative axis within the political agreement concluded by the framework with the political forces, the third paragraph stipulated that elections be held a year after the formation of the government.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Darraji added, "In parliament, the deputies voted on the government program based on the political agreement, and this means that early elections must be held on October 26, 2023, and abandoned by perjury."[/size]
[size=45]Maliki backed off[/size]
[size=45]Last August, two weeks before the armed clashes that took place at the time in the Green Zone, al-Sadr demanded at that time that early elections be held.[/size]
[size=45]Nuri al-Maliki, the leader of the State of Law at the time, replied that early elections could not be held before parliament returned to work.[/size]
[size=45]At that time, al-Sadr's supporters controlled the government district, including the parliament, before they withdrew in late August, on the orders of the leader of the movement.[/size]
[size=45]A month after that incident, Parliament resumed its work, but al-Maliki retracted his previous statement on the issue of early elections.[/size]
[size=45]In a recent meeting with the leader of the movement on one of the stations affiliated with Al-Attar, he said that "the situation in Iraq has become stable and there is no need for early elections."[/size]
[size=45]A close associate of the Sadrist movement believes that al-Maliki and the leaders of the coordination framework, which impose that this government be considered a “government of last chance,” are doing a “test of al-Sadr.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Muqarab, a member of the movement, told Al-Mada, on the condition that his name not be mentioned: “Certainly the coordination framework is worried about al-Sadr’s silence, and with the loss of any means of knowing what the latter is thinking, he only has to send signals from afar.”[/size]
[size=45]The latest Iranian attempts to bring al-Maliki and al-Sadr closer and bring the first back to the Shiite house had failed, according to the movement's circles, and since last summer the leader of the movement has been committed to political silence.[/size]
[size=45]A member of the movement adds: “There is no direction now for political movement or demonstrations, but the leader of the movement always sends messages that he is watching, and the tyrants’ punching against the promise of early elections has not yet provoked al-Sadr.”[/size]
[size=45]And the “framework” had considered, when he decided to form the government last year, the absence of al-Sadr in the political equation as an emergency, so he was supposed to correct the mistake with early elections within a year.[/size]
[size=45]"It is not in the interest of the parties to lose positions and gains by holding early elections," said Rahim al-Darraji, leader of the Enough movement.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Darraji continues: “The political blocs’ lack of feeling threatened by al-Sadr or the street and the religious authority encouraged them to evade the pledge of early elections.”[/size]
[size=45]In the last meeting of the leader of the State of Law, he waved that he accepts what he described as “the exposure of the political reality to new vibrations,” in reference to what happened in the Green clashes last year.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Maliki said, “I will take up arms whenever the image of the state, its prestige, and its system is repeated.”[/size]
[size=45]For his part, Ihsan al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking, believes that the retraction of the coordination framework from holding early elections “may increase political tension and a popular escalation may occur.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Shammari added, in an interview with (Al-Mada): “This item is legal and placed within the government program and voted on by Parliament, and any political party can file lawsuits for not holding early elections.”[/size]
[size=45]Conflicting information had talked about the existence of two versions of the government program that Al-Sudani presented to Parliament last year, regarding the “early elections” item.[/size]
[size=45]Information was leaked about the cancellation of this paragraph in the program and its replacement with floating talk about support for the elections and the commission, without specifying time limits.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani had pledged before Parliament that he would prepare for elections within a year of assuming office, and to make an amendment to the law within the first 3 months (Parliament voted last week on the election law).[/size]
[size=45]The researcher in political affairs points out that with the dominance of the coordination framework over the political decision, the parliament “abandoned the political agreement paper that was included in the government program, under the pretext of political stability.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The coordination framework does not want to enable the Sadrist movement or the emerging movements to rise to the elections, but in the face of any popular escalation, everyone will back down, and the prime minister does not want to clash with the street."[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad al-Sudani, the prime minister, had repeatedly reiterated his readiness to hold early elections, but said that "the matter is left to the decision of the political forces."[/size]
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