Salah Al-Obaidi extends an invitation to the Sadrists: Al-Maliki’s rivals and haters burned his prop

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[size=52]Salah Al-Obaidi extends an invitation to the Sadrists: Al-Maliki’s rivals and haters burned his propaganda[/size]

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[size=45]The director of the office of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr in Syria, Salah al-Obaidi, sent a call to the supporters of the Sadrist movement not to participate in the upcoming elections and not to be dragged into “the pitfalls set by electronic armies in the upcoming election dispute.”[/size]
[size=45]Salah Al-Obaidi said in an audio recording, in which he called on “the brothers in the Sadrist movement to pay close attention and not be drawn into the traps set by the electronic armies in the upcoming election dispute,” indicating that “it is no secret that there is an electoral dispute between more than one Shiite party over council seats.” Governorates in the upcoming elections.[/size]
[size=45]Salah Al-Obaidi added, “It is no secret that the Sadrist movement has nothing to do with the elections, whether from near or far, and our neutrality is 100% negative.” They do not vote for anyone under the pretext of kinship, knowledge, or neighborhood, because that is a drag that the leader of the Sadrist movement does not want, and they do not get dragged into a rivalry due to the irrational competition taking place among them.”[/size]
[size=45]The director of Al-Sadr’s office in Syria, pointed out that “one of the elements of the unfair competition between them is that a group of masked men tore up election propaganda belonging to the State of Law coalition, and posted the video with a Sadrist chant under the pretext that they are Sadrists, but this is not true,” indicating that “ These are equals and those who hate al-Maliki are from the same framework.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Obaidi warned that “the issue will be bigger in the coming days, and we must emphasize neutrality and negativity in the ongoing battle between them,” explaining: “We do not participate in the elections and do not comment on anything,” calling on the Sadrists to “preserve pictures and articles from them so that they become evidence of incrimination against them in the future.” “.
With the launch of propaganda campaigns for the provincial council elections, at the beginning of this November, propaganda banners for the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, were burned in Sadr City, east of the capital, Baghdad, which has a Shiite majority.[/size]
[size=45]Social media platforms circulated video clips showing the burning of an election banner for the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, hours after it was placed in Muzaffar Square, the entrance to Sadr City, according to what was circulated.[/size]
[size=45]Sadr City is considered the largest stronghold of supporters of the leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, the prominent Shiite cleric, whose supporters are spread throughout most of the central and southern governorates of the country.[/size]
[size=45]From time to time, tensions escalate between the Sadrist movement and the State of Law coalition, especially with the start of the elections, as the two parties have been waging an intense political conflict since 2008, when al-Maliki, while prime minister, launched the military operation “Salt of the Knights” in Basra and some southern governorates.[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that, since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, three electoral cycles were held to choose members of the provincial councils during the years 2005, 2009 and 2013, after which the elections that were scheduled for 2017 were postponed, and in 2018 the House of Representatives renewed its work until new legislative elections were held. Before it was stopped in 2019 under pressure from the October protest movement that swept the country at the time.[/size]
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