Al-Sadr: Any party that claims we support it in the elections is lying.
Al-Sadr: Any party that claims we support it in the elections is lying.
2025-11-11 05:02
Shafaq News – Najaf
The leader of the Shiite national movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said on Tuesday that anyone from political parties, entities, or individuals who claims to support him in the current elections is a liar.
This came in a post by Al-Sadr, which was reviewed by Shafaq News Agency. He added that “whoever believes them is either delusional or an infiltrator who has no connection to us whatsoever.”
Al-Sadr continued: “We are boycotting and will not participate with them in their corruption, subservience, or their uncontrolled weapons. Love of the homeland is part of faith. Peace be upon those who follow guidance.”
On Tuesday morning, al-Sadr renewed his call to boycott the elections, recalling the religious authority’s slogan, “The tried and tested should not be tried again.”
Al-Sadr said in a statement, which was received by Shafaq News Agency: “I have left the religion of a people who do not believe in the homeland, nor do they believe in reform, and they deny it.”
He added: “The experienced one does not try again,” and concluded his statement with “We are boycotting corruption and subservience.”
The general voting process for the sixth parliamentary session began this morning, Tuesday, as part of a democratic practice in the political process that emerged after 2003.
Approximately 21 million voters out of about 46 million Iraqis are eligible to elect 329 representatives to represent them in the next session of the House of Representatives. More than seven thousand candidates of both genders are competing, distributed across 37 political electoral alliances and coalitions in all regions and cities of Iraq.
The Shiite National Movement, led by al-Sadr, is boycotting these elections, despite attempts by prominent political figures and parties to dissuade it from this position, but these efforts have failed.
Observers believe that the Sadrist boycott, which is based on a disciplined and organized popular base, may weaken the popular momentum of the elections and create an imbalance in the political balance within the Shiite component, especially in the governorates where the Sadrist movement formed a decisive electoral force during previous rounds.
Al-Sadr had announced last March that he would not participate in the upcoming elections, citing the presence of “corruption and corrupt people,” while indicating that Iraq was “living its last breaths.”
In June 2022, al-Sadr decided to withdraw from the political process in Iraq and not to participate in any future elections so as not to associate with “corrupt” politicians, after calling for the resignation of all 73 of his deputies in parliament.
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