Al-Sadr regroups his supporters with the approaching local elections and news of a new alliance

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[size=52]Al-Sadr regroups his supporters with the approaching local elections and news of a new alliance[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The Sadrist movement's audience interacted with the signing campaign of the new "Pledge Document" issued by the leader of the movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, to adhere to the line of his father, the reference, Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, while this procedure was considered as a prelude to mobilization for the upcoming local elections.[/size]
[size=45]Close associates of al-Sadr reveal an expected mechanism for the latter to run in the provincial council elections in the event that the leader of the movement agrees to participate, which includes not allying with any political party, which is contrary to what is being promoted recently about the existence of indications to restore some old alliances.[/size]
[size=45]Observers considered the “pledging document” that it distinguishes the Sadrist movement from other parties, especially the Shiites, and may in turn increase the concern of its rival, the “coordinating framework,” which tried to break the first’s chances in the upcoming elections by canceling the multi-constituency law that was supported by Al-Sadr.[/size]
[size=45]The "framework" recently began to study the control of important sites in the state and the removal of the Sadrist movement from those positions that it says it has controlled in the past few years, in addition to trying to expel some Sunni personalities who were allied with al-Sadr and block the way for other personalities to return. I was close to the latter. To the political scene, such as former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi.[/size]
[size=45]signature in blood[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr’s supporters began publishing pictures of the signature on the document that had been published by the so-called “Minister of Al-Sadr,” written in the handwriting of the leader of the movement, which calls for following the path of his father, who was assassinated in 1999, and preventing what the movement considers ideological deviations, such as the “Ashab al-Qada” group.[/size]
[size=45]The movement’s audience on social media complained about selling the form in bookstores at a price of 1,000 dinars and called for its reduction, while Hassan Al-Adhari, head of the Sadr bloc in parliament (she resigned last summer) was the first to sign the document and mark it with blood (he posted it on his Twitter page).[/size]
[size=45]Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi, known as “Minister of al-Sadr,” reactivated his account on “Twitter” (he closed it more than two weeks ago), and published al-Sadr’s document, and said, “This document was written by al-Sadr and will be distributed by a specialized committee through the private office, then signed.” And the fingerprint on it.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Iraqi called on the followers of the Sadrist movement to “cooperate, discipline, centralize, and not unilaterally and disperse in signing the document, as there is a special party that will collect it to deliver it directly to Muqtada al-Sadr.”[/size]
[size=45]The document included a pledge in which the names of his followers would be written, signed by them, and stamped with blood. The pledge contained many points, the most important of which was the disavowal of the “owners of the cause” group who claimed “the Mahdism of Muqtada al-Sadr,” as well as moving away from sectarianism and not belonging to anything other than Iraq, and adhering to religious references that adopt the authority of the Sadrists. (Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was executed in 1980).[/size]
[size=45]And he continued: “So wait, I am with you among those waiting, and stop harming your leader with all my respect to the obedient and loyal.”[/size]
[size=45]Hassan Al-Adhari had commented on the image of his signature on the document by saying: “We will see which of the two camps are more numerous, dearer, more steadfast and more determined,” which he interpreted as a rallying of Al-Sadr’s followers and preparation for an upcoming matter.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr had used the same last phrase (we will see which are the two camps...), to distinguish between his supporters and those of the coordination framework during his call for a million-strong demonstration days before the Green clashes at the end of last August.[/size]
[size=45]Information leaked to the extent that the publication of the document is part of the restructuring and mobilization of al-Sadr supporters in preparation for the local elections expected to be held before the end of last year.[/size]
[size=45]The first signs of the movement's preparations to enter the elections began less than two months ago, when Nassar al-Rubaie, the well-known Sadrist leader and former minister, decided to submit his resignation from the presidency of the al-Ahrar bloc, which is the name of al-Sadr's bloc that participated in the previous parliament.[/size]
[size=45]According to what Al-Sadr circles said at the time, the resignation of Al-Rubaie, who is the head of the new Al-Sadr bloc that won the 2021 elections, is to end the duplication of leadership of two blocs, as the parties law does not allow one person to manage two parties.[/size]
[size=45]This took place days before Al-Sadr instructed 8 of his leaders not to travel abroad (during the last month of Ramadan) due to “the presence of important matters related to the public and private situation,” according to a statement by the office of the leader of the movement in Hanana, Najaf, where the latter resides.[/size]
[size=45]The Sadrist movement had been a worrying concern for the coordination framework for the last two months during the discussion of the election law, especially with the news of al-Sadr’s supporters approaching the walls of the Green Zone, denouncing the “Saint Lego” that Parliament approved last March.[/size]
[size=45]However, the “framework” then returned to breathing a sigh of relief after al-Sadr announced the suspension of his movement for at least a year because of the group of “owners of the cause” who fabricated a crisis during the last days of the last Ramadan in the Kufa mosque in Najaf.[/size]
[size=45]At the time, it was expected that al-Sadr or his supporters would return to the street after the last Eid holiday, but observers described what happened as a “short delay to the confrontation,” and considered that the Shiite alliance would remain anxious because it is more familiar with al-Sadr’s policy, which may back down from his positions at any moment.[/size]
[size=45]On the way to the elections[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the position of the leader of the movement on the expected local elections next December, one of his former deputies told Al-Mada, who asked not to be named, that “until now, no instructions have been issued, because the leader of the movement was refusing the survival of this parliament that legislated the new election law.” Last summer, he called for his dissolution and the formation of an interim government.[/size]
[size=45]And in the event that the movement agreed to run in the elections through “Saint Lego”, which the representative says (the law) will not affect the fortunes of the movement, the latter: “will not ally with any political party and wants to obtain a majority in some provincial councils to achieve its vision of a political majority.” He failed to achieve it last year while trying to form a government.[/size]
[size=45]These statements are inconsistent with what is being leaked these days of intentions to re-align al-Sadr with his former allies (the tripartite alliance that included part of the Sunnis and the Kurdistan Democratic Party). Tightening of the chest.[/size]
[size=45]The narrowing operations include, according to what a leader in one of the “framework” parties told Al-Mada: “Re-distributing important jobs known as special grades to the Shiite coalition and taking a share from those who left the political process,” referring to the movement.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to hinting at revealing the involvement of prominent Sunni leaders in what is known as the “theft of the century” through a campaign described as “the largest and most extensive” to expose the secrets of corruption, and an attempt to expand the front competing with Speaker of Parliament Muhammad al-Halbousi as a prelude to his removal from office after the approval of the budget.[/size]
[size=45]Also among the restrictions is the redistribution of governors' positions on the coordinating framework and control over the three provinces (Najaf, Dhi Qar, and Maysan), which are headed by governors affiliated with the Sadrist movement.[/size]
[size=45]In a final blow to attempts to revive any former al-Sadr alliance, observers interpreted the news of the issuance of an investigation warrant against former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi over the airport incident in 2020, as to keep the latter from playing any subsequent political role in Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Posture review[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the researcher in political affairs, Ghazi Faisal, considered al-Sadr's recent measure as "within the policy of self-criticism that the leader of the movement conducts periodically for his positions and those of his supporters."[/size]
[size=45]Faisal said in an interview with (Al-Mada): “We noticed this critical approach in the demonstrations in which the current participated between the years 2014 to 2021. Al-Sadr was always going to reassess his positions and the positions of his current on political issues.”[/size]
[size=45]He added: “Al-Sadr also had a critical vision of the previous governments, and he participated in most of them, and he always threatened to withdraw in protest against the wrong policies, while he rejected the election law and had positions against violence, and the amendment of the constitution, and about quotas, which he considered to be the basis for the peaceful exchange of power.”[/size]
[size=45]Faisal, who is the head of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, confirmed that "Al-Sadr's most prominent critical positions were regarding the corruption file, as he was criticizing those who were involved, even among his supporters, in this file, at the expense of some of them, and issued sanctions against them."[/size]
[size=45]As for what is happening today, the head of the Iraqi Center says that it is “a reconstruction of the current’s positions that will continue during the period of the year in which al-Sadr announced the cessation of his movement’s activity to organize his supporters intellectually, as he clearly returns to the Sadrist reference, which he considers the main reference.”[/size]
[size=45]And the political researcher considers that what al-Sadr did recently “will go to strengthen the status of his movement and make it distinct from the tradition of the Sadrists’ reference, from the rest of the Shiite, even Sunni and Kurdish parties, some of which rely on various references.”[/size]
[size=45]And he continues: “The movement, during the review period, will promote the idea of ​​independence, reject regional agendas, reject quotas, and undermine arms mafias, which will make it close to an alliance with the Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and Iyad Allawi’s coalition to build a national and democratic political system.”[/size]
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