Al-Sadr announces the postponement of Saturday’s demonstrations “until further notice”
The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada Al-Sadr, announced on Tuesday that the date of the demonstrations that were scheduled for his supporters next Saturday would be postponed “until further notice.”
Al-Sadr’s announcement to postpone the protests comes as Iraq has been witnessing an ongoing political crisis since the parliamentary elections that were held in October last year.
The crisis escalated in the last two weeks, with al-Sadr’s supporters announcing an open sit-in that began in parliament and moved outside in the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.
Meanwhile, Sadr’s main rival, the Coordination Framework, announced on Friday the start of a sit-in for his supporters outside the Green Zone, demanding “the formation of a national service government.”
On Monday, al-Sadr said that the protests calling for reform are peaceful and will remain so until the end, in all its details. “What is needed is to reform the whole system,” he said.
Your demands are to reform the regime in all its details: judicial, legislative and executive, and holding the corrupt accountable.
The leader of the Sadrist movement said that he absolutely forbids demanding the return of the Sadrist bloc to the parliament, while calling for the dissolution of the legislative institution and the holding of early elections.
