Factions of popular mobilization, which lost two-thirds of their seats during the legislative, multiply the recourse against results and SIT-ins before the Green Zone of Baghdad, to be integrated into the next government.
by
Barely a few hundred fighters from the units of popular mobilization (MP) camp in front of the green area of Baghdad. At the call of Shiite leaders close to Iran, who form the hard core of this movement, they installed on 19 October their tents at the doors of the Ultra-Secured Zone of the Iraq Capital, to protest the ” Fraud “in the legislative elections of October 10th. The Al-Fatah coalition, their political showcase, recorded a cooking reversing during this ballot, losing two-thirds of the forty-eight seats obtained in 2018. His leaders refuse to accept the defeat that they impute it to a “scam. “Orchestrated by the Mustafa government Al-Kadhimi, with the support of Washington.
In the urns as in the street, the political ascent of the Shiite Militias Pro-Iran seems to mark the step well. “The groups of the muqawama [the axis of pro-Iran resistance] have never been popular in Iraq, their support base is limited. The 2018 vote was the exception: they benefited from their role in The victory against the Islamic state “, Hamdi Malik analysis, a researcher associated with the Washington Institute.
During the three years during which it was the second political force in Parliament and managed several ministries, the Al-Fatah coalition did not convince. His managers “have failed to provide public services. They are accused of large-scale corruption and affiliation with Iran dislikes to many Iraqis, nationalists,” says Malik. Their role in the repression of the antiplo protest movement, appeared in October 2019 in Baghdad and in South Shiite, who has made more than six hundred dead, sentenced them to the eyes of the population.
Inbescerees.
This disaffection of Shiite Street has dubbed an electoral strategy dedicated to failure. Since its training, in 2018, the Al-Fatih coalition has not managed to overcome its divisions. The rivalry that opposes its different chefs, as well as the armed factions within the MP, was exacerbated by the assassination by a typical of American drone, in January 2020, of General Iranian Ghassem Soleimani and his lieutenant in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes. These antagonisms resulted in a dispersion of candidates for the October legislative officers. In some constituencies, several lists from the Al-Fatah coalition have thus found omputition. The Hezbollah Brigades, the nearest armed faction of Tehran, rider alone with their new party, Al-Houqouq (“rights”).
You have 53.91% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.