BAGHDAD: Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr’s motion today announced his refusal to join a new government formed by Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani.
The announcement came two days after lawmakers elected Abdul Latif Rashid as Iraq’s new president, and temporarily appointed Sudani as minister in a bid to end a year of political stalemate since the October 2021 election.
“We put pressure on our company and transparently refuse any of our affiliates to participate. . . in this formation of government,” Mohammed Saleh al-Iraqi, a close associate of Sadr, said in a post on Twitter.
The 52-year-old former Shi’ite minister, Sudani, enjoys Sadr’s Iran-backed rivals, the Coordination Framework, which controls 138 of the 329 seats in the Iraqi legislature.
In June, Sadr ordered the resignation of his bloc’s 73 deputies, leaving parliament in the hands of Cadre, made up of representatives of former paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi.
In his today, the Iraqi accused the long-standing government of having a “clear subordination to the militias” and of “not responding to the aspirations of the people. “
The Sadrist official said the motion refused to be part of any Sudanese led government “or any other candidate among the elderly or those affiliated with the corrupt. “
“Whoever joins their ministries constitutes us. . . rather, we repudiate them,” Iraqi said.
Early elections were held last year following national protests that erupted in October 2019 to denounce endemic corruption, deteriorating infrastructure and lack of employment for young people.
The stakes are high for the next cabinet, with colossal revenues of $87 billion from oil exports locked into central bank coffers.
Cash can rebuild infrastructure in the war-torn country, but it can only be invested after lawmakers approve a state budget submitted through the government, once formed.
Sudani vowed Thursday to push for “economic reforms” that would revitalize Iraqi industry, agriculture and personal sector.
The prime minister-designate also promised to offer young Iraqis “job and housing opportunities. “
Sadr, who has the ability to mobilize tens of thousands of his followers with a single tweet, has demanded early elections, while the coordination framework calls for a new government to be established before elections are held.
Tensions between the two rival Shiite camps spread on Aug. 29 when more than 30 Sadr supporters were killed in clashes with military- and Iranian-backed factions in Baghdad’s Green Zone, which houses diplomatic buildings and missions.
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