Al-Sadr offers the interior bag to Al-Amiri in exchange for breaking the alliance with Al-Maliki
Al-Sadr offers the interior bag to Al-Amiri in exchange for breaking the alliance with Al-Maliki
2022-01-27 07:37
Shafaq News/ Al-Fateh Alliance, led by Hadi Al-Amiri, revealed on Thursday that the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, submitted the portfolio of the Ministry of Interior to Al-Fateh in exchange for breaking the alliance with the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri Al-Maliki, and excluding the latter from participating in forming the next government.
The leader of the coalition, Ali Al-Fatlawi, told Shafaq News Agency, “The coordination framework forces refuse to leave the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki alone in the opposition and not to participate in the next government, despite his coalition owning a large number of parliamentary seats, especially since the seats of al-Maliki’s coalition entitle him to fill 3 Ministerial portfolios in the next government.
And he indicated that “the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, presented to the leader of the Fatah Alliance Hadi al-Amiri the portfolio of the Ministry of Interior, in exchange for leaving al-Maliki and entering into one alliance with the Sadrist bloc and heading towards forming a majority government.”
Al-Fatlawi added, “But this matter was rejected, and Al-Amiri confirmed that the framework is allying with all its forces with the current, and without that the whole framework goes towards the opposition or the boycott.”
Al-Sadr arrived yesterday evening, Wednesday, to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to discuss with the political forces, especially the leaders of the coordination framework, on the alliances that will lead to the formation of the next government.
Al-Sadr, whose list topped the elections, had said in a televised statement, the day before yesterday, Tuesday, that he offered the Coordinating Framework Forces to enter into a national majority government on the condition that the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, did not participate, but they refused.
Al-Sadr blames Al-Maliki, who headed the government for two consecutive terms (2006-2014), for rampant corruption and acts of violence in the country, in addition to the ISIS invasion of a third of Iraq in the summer of 2014.
The Sadrist bloc topped the October 10 elections, with 73 seats, followed by the Progress Alliance with 37, the State of Law coalition with 33, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party with 31.
Al-Sadr seeks to form a national majority government, unlike the rest of the coordinating framework forces, which demand a consensual government in which all political forces in Parliament participate, similar to previous sessions.
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