months-long effort to create a new government in Iraq fell into disarray after the influential Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr asked all 73 lawmakers in his political bloc to withdraw from parliament on Sunday. They, with the Parliament Speaker accepting their request. Sadr’s candidate for Prime Minister stepped back from vying for the role, too.
Experts say the political paralysis since elections in October is partly due to long simmering discontent among Iraqis who feel the political system prioritizes keeping elites in power over providing essential services such as access to electricity and clean water. In the short term, it’s also caused by Sadr’s inability to push through political reforms that would have consolidated his party’s power., Iraq’s political system was set up under U.S.
As a result, little has changed. “Whenever you have an election, it’s the same leaders that come back, the same last names, the same people playing a game of musical chairs—shuffling their people around government. And so you don’t really see change coming from that,” says Renad Mansour, a research fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme and director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House, a London-based think-tank focused on international affairs.
Between 2019-2021, mass demonstrations swept through Iraqi cities in protest of political sectarianism and the state’s failure to provide jobs or basic services such as electricity and sewage. Those protests prompted theIraq Protests: What Do the Protesters Want?
The author acts as if Iraqi society was ever likely to be anything but a) a brutal and violent tyranny ruled by one faction or another or b) an untenably divisive regime with some features of democracy. The latter is far better than the former.
Iraq's political paralysis is not a result of the US, but a result of religious fanatism among large segments of the population.
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Mission Accomplished… destroy Iraq .. piece by piece, because we can do it!🙄 Imagine that…
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