An invitation to one million on the eve of choosing the Prime Minister of Iraq … the means of escalation are present
The number of candidates for this position has reached about 48 people, but their chances remain mixed
Political forces continue the dialogues related to forming the next government, while the Shiite forces held an expanded meeting to determine the largest bloc, absent from it by the Saeron bloc, which expressed its refusal to return to that issue.
Activists in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square have announced their intention to escalate if a prime minister who is not subject to their criteria is nominated. While calling for a million on Sunday, which coincides with the end of the constitutional deadline for the appointment of a new prime minister, they stressed that all peaceful means of escalation are available to them, if the authority does not abide by the specifications they presented to the next prime minister.
Constant pressure
Political sources confirmed that a meeting was held today, Saturday, December 21 (December), by Nuri al-Maliki, Hadi al-Amiri and Qais al-Khazali, with the head of the Federal Court, Medhat al-Mahmoud, to pressure him to consider the building alliance the largest bloc.
The number of candidates for the post of prime minister reached 48, which experts considered as confirmation by political forces of their continued struggle for the position.
Since the approval of the House of Representatives on the resignation of the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi, political forces have begun to offer their options, which protesters saw as a challenge to the will of the Iraqi street.
Among the most prominent names that have been proposed are the name of the Minister of Higher Education Qusay al-Suhail, and the former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Muhammad Shi’a al-Sudani.
Political sources indicated that all of those names are backed by Tehran, which does not want to lose its allies to this position, pointing to the entry of former Minister of Youth and Sports Abd al-Hussein Abtan to the stock exchange of possible names supported by Tehran.
Decisive night
Meanwhile, the protesters are awaiting the agreements that the political blocs will take out regarding the position of the next prime minister, warning that any outputs they do not satisfy will push them to a major escalation and announcing the rupture with the authority.
Activist Alaa al-Rubaie says, “The protesters are waiting for the final night to take their next steps.” He added to “The Independent Arabia” “on the authority to bow to our demands, or else lead us to a further escalation.
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The protesters do not exclude taking all peaceful steps of escalation, including storming the government area known as the “Green Zone”, noting that there is coordination with their colleagues in other governorates, such as Najaf and Basra, which have great pressure cards.
For his part, activist Mohamed Al-Naili said, “The protesters are moving within the peaceful region to sort their escalating cards, and they start from the horizontal expansion from the liberation square and cut the bridges and do not end in entering the green, especially in the case of assigning one of the hawks of the political process such as Al-Suhail or Abtan.”
Serious escalation
Experts believe that the support enjoyed by the protesters from the religious authority is a great motivation for them to continue and escalate, warning of the intransigence of the political class, which will lead to a deterioration of security under the escaped weapon.
“If a new prime minister is not chosen according to the specifications of the protesters, the escalation of the protests will be significant,” political analyst Wathiq al-Hashemi said, revealing to “Independent Arabia” that “there is support from the president of the republic to choose an independent personality distant from the parties despite the insistence Building block to submit its candidate. ”
48 candidates
The post of prime minister has great political significance in Iraq, where experts explain that the large number of nominations confirms the parties ’desire to take it again.
Political researcher Hisham Al-Mozani says, “The political forces will try to impose their vision in a reduced manner, but the imposition of their vision is the most important goal for them,” noting that “the imposition of the prime minister by the masses will set a precedent that political forces see will cause them future problems.”
He demonstrates that “the demonstrators have several means of escalation that can cause a major imbalance in the political system.