The big winner of the legislative ballot is the Chiite Moqtada Al-Sadr leader, in the king maker position, while several Shiite pro-Iran parties denounced a “scam”.
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In an exploded political landscape and facing a demobilized electorate, victory was acquired for Moqtada al-Sadr in the legislative elections, Sunday, October 10, Iraq. In the disadvantaged neighborhoods of Baghdad and the deaths of South Shiite, the car phakins of the Saraya al-Salam militia (“peace companies”) had tantly mobilized their supporters. A disciplined basis of several million people loyal to the populist Shiite, who has built a political stature in the wake of his revered father, the Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (1943-1999), and the fight against the US Occupation after 2003, until the first force to Parliament, in 2018. Without waiting for the publication of the final results, Moqtada al-Sadr declared himself the winner of the ballot on Monday night.
According to preliminary results, the Sadrist current sees its position in the reinforced parliament. His executives already claim 73 on 329 seats, against 54 in 2018, far before the other political forces, including Shiite parties, who dictate the training of all governments since the fall of Saddam Hussein. A head of the electoral commission confirmed at the France-Presse agency that the Saharisty current was “in mind”. The final results will specify the distribution of seats in the future assembly, but already several trends are drawn.
In the Shiite camp, the coalition of the law of the former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (2006-2014) makes a return in force – with at least 37 seats, according to his managers -, while The Al-Fatah coalition (“victory”) bringing together the militia parties close to Iran, which counted 48 deputies in the outgoing assembly, recorded a serious setback. Parliament President Mohammed Al-Halboussi wins an overwhelming victory in the Sunni camp facing the coalition led by his rival Khamis al-Khanjar. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) of Clan Barzani remains the main strength of Camp Kurde, before the Kurdistan Patriotic Union (PUK) of the Talabani clan. The small new generation party takes advantage of the disaffection of the two parties, in the fringe of a few seats.
The breakthrough of the parties from the “October Revolution”
Record abstention – Only 41% of the 22 million registered voters traveled to the polls and 34% of Iraqis of voting age – benefited from traditional parties. Many people, especially among young people and in the capital Baghdad, who have not moved, convinced that the ballot was acquired to the parties in power and would have no impact on the improvement of their living conditions. Several parties from the 2019 “Revolution”, which had translated a generalized ras-bole into the Shiite majority against a system dominated by the Islamist parties supported by Iran and Gangrené by corruption, boycotted the ballot. Yet those who played the game of participation realized a surprise breakthrough, benefiting from a new electoral law more favorable to local candidatures and the independents.
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