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Shawn Yuan

Sadrists quit Iraq’s parliament, but al-Sadr isn’t going away

Muqtada al-Sadr remains popular amongst many Iraqi Shia [File: Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters]

Baghdad, Iraq – After nearly eight months of the Iraqi parliament’s repeated failure to form a government, influential Shia religious leader – and the biggest winner of Iraq’s October parliamentary elections – Muqtada al-Sadr decided enough was enough.

On Sunday, he ordered the Sadrist Movement bloc, 73 members of parliament, to submit its resignation – which it duly did.

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