Iraqi protests set for for long sit-in at parliament

Followers of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr erected tents and prepared for an open-ended sit-in after storming Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone Saturday, taking over the empty parliament building

Supporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr erected tents and prepared for an open-ended sit-in at Iraq’s parliament on Sunday, in a move that could prolong political deadlock or plunge the country into fresh violence.

Sadr’s social-political Sadrist Movement is demanding that parliament be dissolved and new elections be held and that federal judges be replaced, the Sadrist official said. Sadr failed to form a government free of those parties, however, beset by just enough opposition in parliament and federal court rulings that stopped him getting his choice of president and prime minister.

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