Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Muhammad al-Khalbousi urged “everyone, and we first of all, to sincerely work to prevent the situation from slipping, and to bear national responsibility for preserving the interests of the people and the country,” given that “who does not care about the Iraqis, he is not one of them.”

And he warned in a social media statement that “Iraqi unity is a red line that we will never tolerate and we will not let the fingers of soft war affect people or stir up divisions.”

Meanwhile, dozens of Muqtada al-Sadr’s followers gathered Thursday night in Tahrir Square to gather and prepare for popular demonstrations today to prevent the Iraqi parliament from holding a session to vote on the country’s new president. and reject the nomination of Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani to form a new government.

These developments come at the height of Iraqi political forces engaging in rounds of talks aimed at bridging differences of opinion and breaking the deadlock over the formation of a new government, more than nine months after early parliamentary elections.

On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi urged demonstrators to keep the peace and immediately leave the “green zone” in the center of the capital Baghdad after security sources said demonstrators were injured and stormed the area, which includes the American and British embassies. , as well as the headquarters of the government, parliament, presidential administration and sovereign ministries put forward slogans of abandoning quotas in the political process.