Baghdad: Protests by occupying the parliament building in Iraq. The protest is against the appointment of a candidate favored by Iran as the prime minister. Followers of Shia leader Muqtada Al-Sadr in parliament for second day I am trapped.
Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, the leader of the pro-Iran alliance, has a government The protest is against trying to see. The voting was to be held on Saturday. By that time, the protesters surrounded the parliament and disrupted the proceedings. The cement barricades of the high-security green zone can be broken. The protestors rejected.
Muqtada Alzadr’s party won the election held in October last year. is the largest single party. But the government could not make it. The political uncertainty of that time came to encroach on the Parliament. The protesters announced a sit-in in Parliament. Most of them slept inside the Parliament itself on Sunday night.
The protesters have been instructed to leave the parliament as soon as possible. But they refused to back down – “We don’t need Mr. Sudani. I am protesting against a corrupt and incompetent government. I will sleep in this parliament” – said 47-year-old government official Sattar al-Aliavi.
Summary- Supporters of powerful Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr have erected tents and are preparing for a long sit-in at Iraq’s parliament, deepening a months-long political standoff.