On Wednesday, the Iraqi judiciary was called on by Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr to dissolve the Parliament by the end of the next week.
The Parliament will convene to dissolve itself citing that it has “blocs that adhere to the quota (system) and are involved in corruption and will not answer to the peoples’ demand of dissolving the Parliament,” Al-Sadr ruled out in a tweet.
An alternative way to disband the assembly can be achieved through the judiciary, he stated.
Judicial authorities, especially the Supreme Judicial Council, will “correct the path” after the constitutional deadline for the Parliament to choose a president and assign a premier to form a government expires, the influential cleric expressed.
The judiciary to “dissolve the Parliament… within a period that does not exceed the end of the next week,” he urged.
Amid a nine-month-old political crisis that has stalled the government formation since the October 10, 2021 elections, Al-Sadr recently called for the dissolution of the assembly and the holding of early polls.
After failing to form a “national majority” government, as the Coordination Framework, a coalition of groups close to Iran, hampered the Cabinet formation, 73 lawmakers of Al-Sadr’s movement resigned from the 329-seat parliament last June.
