Saturday, 5 February 2022 (YJC)_ The Sadr faction in Iraq announced the suspension of talks to form the next government and announced a boycott of Monday's parliamentary session to elect a new president.
The Sadr parliamentary faction has announced that it will boycott next Monday's session of parliament and refuse to attend.
The head of Sadr's parliamentary faction, Hussein al-Azari, told a news conference today (Saturday, February 5th) that all talks with the parliamentary factions to form a future government had been suspended by order of the Sadr faction leader.
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It was also decided that none of the members of the Sadr faction - with the exception of the first deputy speaker of parliament - would attend Monday's parliamentary session to elect the president.
A meeting of Iraq's new parliament is scheduled for February 7 to elect a new president. The Iraqi parliament has officially announced the names of 25 approved candidates for the presidency. Haidar al-Abadi is accused of corruption.
In Iraqi politics, which has lasted since the first election in 2005 after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the presidency of the parliament is reserved for Sunni groups, the presidency for the Kurds and the prime minister for the Shiites. The Iraqi presidency has since been in the hands of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) under an internal agreement between the two parties, but in the previous term and in 2018, the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) also tried to take over, leading to disputes. It fueled between the two parties.
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