Iraq held early parliamentary elections on the tenth of last October, and the armed factions still refuse to recognize their results, and resorted to various methods to cancel them.
These groups reached a dead end with regard to obtaining more seats in the Parliament, as they were able to increase their yield by only two seats, through repeated objections and pressure on the Electoral Commission, to become only 17 seats, down from 48 they had obtained during the 2018 elections.
These factions reached the last stage, when they filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court to cancel the election results, while they launched another path towards the need to form a consensus government to enhance their chances of obtaining ministerial positions.
This lawsuit was adopted by Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, who mobilized several lawyers for it, and increased his pressure by attending the first pleading with heavyweight political leaders within the “coordinating framework.”
The Federal Court adjourned the case, until the 13th of this month, to pronounce its verdict in the case before it.
Two paths for armed factions
In this context, the Iraqi political analyst, Imad Muhammad, believes that “the armed groups adopted two paths in their behavior after losing the elections, the first by launching a political dialogue with other parties, and sending mediators to the political blocs with the aim of forming a consensus government, enhancing their chances in ministerial positions. and the impact of defeat on them was attenuated.”
In a statement to “Sky News Arabia”, the Iraqi analyst believes that “the second track is to adopt escalation and pressure, and to file lawsuits to cancel the election results, which is not possible at the present time, due to several factors, and a number of circumstances that prevent this, most notably the rejection of society.” International, such as the Security Council and the United Nations Mission, who were observers of the electoral process, and did not point out a serious fraud that deserves to cancel the results.”
He pointed out that “the armed factions launched a political movement recently, with the aim of including them in the next government, which included unannounced visits to the Sunni and Kurdish forces.”
The most prominent of those groups objecting to the results are: the Badr Organization led by Hadi al-Amiri, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, led by Qais Khazali, who is on the US sanctions list, and Kata’ib Hezbollah, as well as the State of Law coalition led by Nuri al-Maliki.
For days, the United Nations envoy to Iraq, Jeanine Plaschaert, has been conducting a movement within the political corridors, to dissolve differences and enhance opportunities for dialogue between the conflicting parties. Towards the path of the consensus government, or the majority government.
Looking forward to the next session
In this context, a leader in the Sadrist movement said, “Plasschaert’s recent visit to al-Sadr did not propose a settlement with the armed factions and the formation of a consensus government, but rather the vision of the international community and the Security Council on the Iraqi elections, and the impression created by them.”
The leader, who refused to be named, added to “Sky News Arabia”, “The leader of the movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, cannot accept a settlement or deal that would involve the losing parties in forming the next government. Rather, there is an internal insistence in the movement on the majority government, and it rejected any Mediations, which may push towards the path of a government in which everyone participates, and no one can bear the responsibility for it.”
Attention is directed to the Federal Court, which is scheduled to hold its session on the 13th of this month, to decide the issue of canceling the election results, a decision that jurists do not expect to happen, due to the absence of payments and appeals that could affect the judges’ decision.
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