Don961: Looks like Sistani is showing his displeasure by using the silent treatment …. we’ll see how it starts to affect the process as they realize following his law and having his approval means more to them than anything else
Sistani, in the case of silent frustration
Shiite cleric refrain from interfering in the deepening political crisis and refuses to meet with a delegation from the House of Representatives of the protesters.
2016-04-19
BAGHDAD – close to the Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said he was extremely frustrated and discontent with the worsening crisis in Iraq because of disagreements among politicians about the new line-up and the fight against corruption.
The crisis intensified after he sacked a number of deputies Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, after hearing his comment was in session Tuesday to vote on a government list of 14 candidates presented by Abadi, after negotiation with the heads of political blocs.
The move led to a freeze on the work of the House of Representatives and a sharp split within the political blocs between supporters of the dismissal of her shows.
It includes Abadi plan announced in February and backed Sadrists reforms through the introduction of academic figures and technocrats to the government.
But the major political blocs which dominate the power and share the important positions hinder it.
Sources said the MP for the coalition of state law, Haitham al-Jubouri did not find after failing to meet top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf is the statement that “the reference with reform and change.”
The sources said according to the Abbasid told the News that this “phrase uttered to justify his failure with a number of his fellow protesters House of Representatives at the meeting with the supreme authority, which carries close to him extreme displeasure with the performance of successive governments, chaired by Shiite leaders led to more corruption, theft and destruction in Iraq.”
The Ayatollah Ishaq Fayyad, a Sistani aide to clear and cynical at the same time it is an al-Jubouri and his colleagues who accompanied him, said that “al-Sistani is not political and blessing in you, ye politicians”, referring not devoid of cynicism and criticism of Shiite political leaders that have raged differences between them and they went to the exchange of accusations and distrust each other.
Although the MP Haitham al-Jubouri, the delegation of the protesters Representatives head, mostly advocacy and State of Law coalition party to meet Sistani allegedly “independent” and heads a small faction in the coalition (competencies) inherited from its founder, a spokesman for the former government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh resident abroad, but the information about it is not encourages the estate Anajafip to meet with him for his involvement in the corruption of files, most notably adjust the peasants on his farm located in the hand-Qasim province of Babylon, the seizure of large quantities of oil from the pipeline passes the farm and sold in his favor in 2014, which called on former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to intervene and stop the legal proceedings against him.
According to the representative was quoted as reference in Karbala, Abdul Mahdi Karbalai Sistani does not want to involve himself in the political conflicts between the Shiite leaders “who do not remember the reference, but in times of crisis.”
Parliamentary sources do not rule out that the failure of the Delegation of Representatives of the protesters headed by Haitham al-Jubouri leads Ayatollah Sistani interview, to the rise of the shares of the Sadrist movement in the Shiite street after its leader, Muqtada al-Sadr succeeded in attracting the limelight through popular protests and call for political reforms at a time when the decline of the party advocacy and a coalition of state law in Shiite circles.
And managed to move from the chest on the street again after the parliament failed to vote on the new cabinet line-up presented by al-Abadi.
Experiencing the Iraqi capital Baghdad and several provinces protests and rallies demanding the departure of the Government of Abadi and denouncing sectarian quota system and corruption.
She returned the tents of protesters to show up again in many private ones Baghdad in what reflects the pressures faced by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is now his reforms and political future at stake in the light of the growing influence of political parties and personalities outs to those reforms that are believed to threaten the interests of the Iraqi arenas.
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