Baghdad on the 6th of September : Top officials from Iraq and their political counterparts met for an event to discuss the state of Iraqi politics and to develop a plan to end the stifling situation that the country is experiencing.
In a session attended by the President Barham Salih, Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and other high-ranking officials It was agreed “to create a team of diverse political parties to devise an outline of how to get early elections and meet their goals by reviewing the law on elections and rethinking the commission for elections” in an announcement by the Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s office.
The meeting on Monday emphasized “the National responsibility of maintaining peace, defending the country from crises, assisting efforts to calm to prevent violence from escalating and establishing an open national dialogue to find resolutions”, Xinhua news agency said in the statement.
It also emphasized the necessity of reforming the Iraqi political system through necessary legislation and government programs that are effective, with constitutional adherence at all levels of dialogue and resolution.
The group reaffirmed the appeal to the Sadrist Movement to participate in the dialogue meetings to find solutions to all issues that are contentious.
In the month of March, political leaders met for the first time in the course of dialogue at the request of al-Kadhimi in order to find a solution of the current crisis in the country.
However, the well-known Shia leader Moqtada al Sadr was not present or sent an official on behalf of him.
He also did it thing at the Monday meeting.
The president on Sunday urged the blocs of parliament to hold new sessions of dialogue on a variety of issues, including the possibility of early elections.
Tensions over politics in Iraq have risen in the past few weeks between al-Sadr’s opponents and those in the Shia Coordination Framework, an umbrella group of Shia political parties in parliament.
In the last couple of months, the ongoing disputes between the Shiite parties have hindered the formation of an interim government, making it impossible to choose a new president with a majority of two-thirds of the 329-seat parliament under the Iraqi constitution.
