Thursday AM Iraq Parliament News Highlights 7-28-22
A Difficult Day.. It Started By Storming Al-Sadr And Ended With Al-Maliki’s Machine Gun
political| 09:39 – 07/28/2022 Follow-up – Mawazine News, Iraq lived a difficult day on Wednesday, in which many observers saw an alarm bell that required raising the level of caution in the country that has been exhausted by war and political turmoil for years.
Thousands of followers of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, entered the heavily fortified Green Zone in the center of the capital, Baghdad, where they chanted slogans in support of al-Sadr and against the forces of the “coordinating framework” backed by Iran.
Al-Sadr called on his supporters to withdraw, saying in a tweet on “Twitter”: “Your message has arrived, dear ones, for you have terrified the corrupt, pray two units of prayer and return to your homes safely.”
While the crowds of demonstrators were roaming the corridors of the Iraqi parliament, the “coordinating framework” forces issued a statement accusing the Sadrist movement of fomenting chaos.
The statement stated, “After the coordinating framework forces completed the practical steps to start forming a national service government and agreed unanimously to nominate a national figure known for his efficiency and integrity, it monitored suspicious movements and calls that urge chaos, stir up strife and strike civil peace.”
The statement pointed out that “what happened today of accelerated events, allowing the demonstrators to enter the special government zone, storming the parliament and constitutional institutions, and the failure of the concerned forces to fulfill their duty raises suspicions greatly.”
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, called on the demonstrators to immediately withdraw from the parliament building.
A statement issued by Al-Kazemi’s office said: “The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces calls on the demonstrators to immediately withdraw from the parliament building, which represents the authority of the people and the law,” according to the Iraqi News Agency.
For his part, Iraqi President Barham Salih affirmed that peaceful demonstration and expression of opinion is a constitutionally guaranteed right, while stressing the need to abide by calm and the language of reason to prevail.
In a statement, Saleh pointed out that “the country is going through a delicate circumstance and faces grave challenges and great entitlements that require uniting the ranks and maintaining the peaceful democratic path in the country for which our people sacrificed over decades of tyranny, persecution and violence, and this calls for everyone to unite to work in one row for the sake of our country and its progress.” and raised it.”
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Muhammad al-Halbousi, also called on the demonstrators to maintain the peacefulness of the demonstration, and his media office said in a statement:
“The Speaker of Parliament called on the demonstrators to maintain the peacefulness of the demonstration, and directed the Parliament’s protection forces not to attack or harm the demonstrators, and not to carry weapons inside Parliament, As well as directing the General Secretariat of the House of Representatives to be present in the parliament and communicate with the demonstrators.” https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=200719
The Coordination Framework Calls On The Government To Cancel Administrative Orders And New Appointments
Policy 2022-07-27 | 17:05 Source: Alsumaria news 10,200 views The coordination framework demanded, on Wednesday, the caretaker government to cancel all administrative orders and new appointments.
A statement by the framework said, “The coordination framework held its regular meeting No. 105 today, Wednesday, to discuss a number of issues related to the political and security situation, the formation of the government, and the session for electing the President of the Republic and the Vice-President of the House of Representatives.”
And the coordinating framework rejected, according to the statement, “what the caretaker government is doing of administrative changes and new appointments in contravention of the law and decisions of the Federal Court and considering everything issued by it after 10/7/2021 is illegal, and demanded the caretaker government to abide by the constitution and the law and cancel all administrative orders and new appointments.”
Minister Al-Sadr Regarding The Green Demonstrations: Today Is A “Jar Of Permission” And Tomorrow Is A Reform Revolution
Policy 2022-07-28 | 04:29 6,224 views Today, Thursday, Al-Sadr’s minister, known as “Saleh Muhammad Al-Iraqi,” published a new post about the green demonstrations, commenting, “Today is a jar of permission… and tomorrow is a reform revolution.” Al- Iraqi’s post came with the following text:
– Disciplined masses
– Peaceful demonstrations
– Unrivaled spontaneity
– Speed of storming and suddenness
– Courage and strength of heart
– Obedience to the leader
– A high level understanding of his taste and wishes
– It was a foothold that angers and frightens the corrupt and subaltern.
– It was only a small part of the current.. What if the current was of its usual weight?
– So today is a jar… and tomorrow?!
– A reform revolution in the month of reform and as an extension of the master of reform, Imam Hussein, peace be upon him
– the cooperation of the security forces, may God increase them in strength, honor and pride
– the participation of some loved ones from the October revolutionaries.. I made it an Iraqi epic.. Thank them
– a message received by the parties and understood by the judiciary and the whole world assimilated
– may it be suitable To be a message to the naturalists, the compromising people, and the meem.
– Yesterday against the dictator and today against corruption and dependency, that is why you reminded us of the popular revolution
– you raised our heads high.. May God increase you in honor and honor
. He continued, saying: “The last intervention by (His Eminence) regarding the demonstrations is if the corrupt continue their tyranny, stubbornness, corruption and injustice. And their subordination and their hatred of the homeland.. If the people are with this discipline, they deserve to be the leader and they are the ones who decide their fate.”
He concluded by saying, “Congratulations to the homeland for you and congratulations to you for the homeland, for God has honored the homeland with you and cherished you with it.”
The Coordinating Framework Escapes From The Stigma Of “The Sudanese Owner”: Whoever Nominated Him Loses His Share In The Ministries!
Posted On2022-07-28 By Sotaliraq Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan Hours after the “coordinating framework” announced that all its parties would stand behind their candidate for prime minister, Muhammad al-Sudani, the time has now come to repudiate him!
As the Shiite bloc is approaching a new internal crisis due to the political identity of the “Sudanese” and the distribution of ministries: to which party does it belong?
The answer to this question will ultimately determine the shares of the “framework” parties from the ministries according to the points system, and the holder of the highest executive position will have exhausted all his points.
The “frameworkers” are jostling for the 12 Shiite ministries because of the large number of leaders in the group, while there is an intention not to grant the “independents” any position, even the deputy speaker of parliament.
The information indicates that the “frameworkers” are afraid of getting close to the “ministerial bomb” now, especially with the expansion of threats by supporters of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, to go out to the street.
The Sadrists have already begun to publish tweets about what they described as a “revolution” that will take place in the coming days of Ashura, amid the continued silence of the movement’s leader Muqtada al-Sadr about the nomination of “Al-Sudani”.
During the inauguration ceremony of Al-Sudani as a candidate for prime minister, which took place at the home of Al-Fateh leader Hadi Al-Amiri, the “managers” did not calculate the distribution of ministries, according to the information.
This information obtained by (Al-Mada) from informed sources confirms that: “The framework got into a problem when it was announced that Al-Sudani is the candidate of the whole group and does not belong to any party and so far he is afraid to discuss the issue of the distribution of ministries.”
The political custom after 2003 was that ministries are distributed on a points system (electoral weight), and whoever gets to be the prime minister may not get a ministry next to it.
After the “framework” announced the selection of the Sudanese MP, Qais al-Khazali (the leader of the Asaib Asaib) said in an audio room on social media that: “The framework candidate is unanimous, not the candidate of a bloc or party within the framework.”
Khazali’s words came after leaks that the “Sudanese” is the candidate of Nuri al-Maliki, the leader of the rule of law, while the “framework” is trying to send messages to the Iraqis that his candidate is “not supported” by one side.
The words of the Asa’ib leader and the rest of the “framework” parties have implicated the group, according to the information, as they now have to agree on how to distribute 12 ministries to at least 7 parties.
What is the points system?
The most prominent application of the points system took place in Al-Maliki’s second term, when the number of parties affiliated with the ministerial formation increased.
At that time, the ministries were divided into three categories: A, which is the highest category of ministries, which is the sovereign (foreign, defense, interior, oil, and finance).
The second category (b) is the service ministries (such as agriculture, industry, commerce, and others), and the last (c) is the state ministries (a minister without a ministry).
In this equation, each point is calculated as equivalent to two seats in Parliament, and the sovereign ministry is calculated by 5 points (ten seats) and the other ministries with 4 points (eight seats).
As for the positions of the three republican presidencies, the House of Representatives and the Council of Ministers, they were calculated by 15 points (thirty seats).
On this basis, if this equation is applied, the state of law, for example (if it denies that Al-Sudani is affiliated with it), will get at least 4 sovereign ministries or 8 service ministries.
But if, according to the leaks, the rule of law recognizes that the position of prime minister is hers, it may obtain one sovereign ministry or two service ministries.
And the rule of law after it got the seats of the resigned Sadrists now owns about 40 seats, while al-Maliki says in his last meeting that he has “70 deputies in the framework,” and if this number is correct, the crisis will get complicated.
The Al-Fateh coalition also has more than 40 seats and will get the same share of State of Law, and perhaps more in a ministry.
On this basis, two parties out of at least 7 within the “framework” occupied all the assigned Shiite positions, which are 12 ministries out of 22, and they still need 4 others, so what about the rest of the parties?
According to the information, the complex dilemma in which the “framework” fell will prevent him from speaking publicly that “Al-Sudani” is Maliki’s candidate, because this will harm the group’s discourse, and the latter refuses to recognize this out of greed for the ministries.
In the face of this crisis, according to informed sources, it is believed that part of the solution will be in the continuation of the decision of the Wisdom Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim on its previous position not to participate in the government, which means not to obtain ministries, except for independent bodies, where those positions are subject to other accounts.
However, the position of Haider al-Abadi, who is Hakim’s partner, is not yet known, as the former had strongly nominated himself to head the government, which indicates that the former prime minister will not give up his share.
The most ambiguous is the position of al-Amiri, who announced before choosing the “Sudanese” not to participate in the government, and understood from him that he would not get a ministry, before reversing his decision.
The leader of Al-Fateh by announcing his non-participation is not yet clear whether this is his position alone, or the position of the Badr Organization, or the entire Fatah alliance?!
The other thing is that al-Amiri’s return days before the “coordinating party” decided the name of his candidate, and his competition (Amiri) for the position may have blown up all previous assumptions.
Likewise, the “independents” may not get a ministry, as it was leaked as compensation for that team after the “Coordination Committee” evaded its promises to the former to grant it the right to form a government during the crisis with “Al-Sadr”.
Also, according to the sources, the “independents” will not get the position of the first deputy speaker of parliament, which was occupied by the resigned Sadrist MP Hakim al-Zamili, because of the scramble for positions within the “framework”.
The sources that spoke to (Al-Mada) confirm that “the position of the first deputy was decided to the coordinating framework.” According to the points system, the positions of the three vice-presidencies are calculated with 10 points (20 seats).
On the other hand, Hussein Arab, an independent deputy, said in a tweet on “Twitter” that in the next parliament session: “there will be the decision of the President of the Republic and the first deputy speaker of the House of Representatives is for the independents.”
The most prominent independent candidates for the position are the representatives (Hussein Arab, Bassem Khashan, Mustafa Sanad), in contrast the candidates for the framework are the representatives (Ahmed Al-Asadi, Adnan Fayhan, Muhammad Al-Sayhud).
Leaks had indicated that the “Coordination Council” sent a request to Parliament to hold a session on Thursday to choose the President of the Republic.
Continued silence and approaching «revolution»!
So far, Parliament has not issued any comment on the news, and Kurdish circles indicate that the negotiations did not reach the selection of a consensual president.
It has now been more than 48 hours since the “coordinating framework” announced the name of its candidate, while “Al-Sadr” and his allies in the Democratic Party and the Progress Alliance did not comment on these developments.
This comes at a time when websites affiliated with the Sadrists started talking about the “Ashura revolution” in reference to the possibility of launching demonstrations in the month of Muharram, which begins two days later.
Hazem al-Araji, a Sadrist leader, said in a wave of tweets about upcoming protests: “The month of Muharram is always a revolution against injustice and corruption…”
And on Tuesday evening, the Al-Shaab area, north of Baghdad, witnessed demonstrations in front of the office of candidate Muhammad Al-Sudani, in refusal to take over as prime minister.
On the other hand, “supporters of al-Sadr” have published dates for upcoming demonstrations, which will start from Maysan, where they are supposed to have been launched at nine o’clock yesterday evening, Wednesday.
Those supposed dates avoided talking about the rejection of a “Sudanese person”, but described them as demonstrations against “the entire system of corruption.”
The Al-Sudani tribe had objected to what it described as “sarcasm”, a close associate of Al-Sadr, known as “Saleh Muhammad Al-Iraqi”, of the candidate to head the next government.
The leader of the tribe, MP Muhammad al-Sihoud, representing the state of law, said that “the Sudanese have not and will not be a candidate for the (Sudan) tribe, but rather he is the candidate of the Shiite component first and Iraq second.”
Al-Iraqi published a picture behind which he understood that Al-Sudani is a shadow candidate for the leader of the state of law, Nuri al-Maliki.
