Cleric urges support as followers occupy parliament

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 02, 2022 12:02 am

BAGHDAD: Powerful Iraqi Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr on Sunday urged other factions to support a protest that has seen his followers occupy the country's parliament in a dispute over who should name the next prime minister.

Nearly 10 months after elections were held, the oil-rich country is still without a new government due to repeated failure of negotiations and the mass resignation last month of Sadr's bloc, the largest in parliament.

MEN IN BLACK Supporters of Iraq’s powerful Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr (portrait), who are protesting a rival bloc’s nominee for prime minister, occupy the country’s parliament in Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone on Sunday, July 31, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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