Draw Media

Muqtada al-Sadr has contacted Bafel Talabani twice today and has made two suggestions for the presidential candidate, Bafel Talabani has rejected the first proposal, and the PUK's political bureau has rejected the second proposal.

The official PUK media reported that Bafel Jalal Talabani had a phone call from Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Sadr movement, discussing important political issues related to the situation in Iraq, forming a new government, and overcoming problems and mechanisms of getting rid of Iraq's political deadlock.

A member of the PUK's political bureau told Draw media: Today Muqtada Al-Sadr contacted Bafel Talabani twice:

At the first Phone call, Muqtada al-Sadr has suggested withdrawing The presidential candidate, Barham Salih, for the KDP’s candidate, in return for the ministerial posts of Kurdish shares. Bafel Talabani rejected this proposal.

Sadr then contacted him and asked to withdraw both the PUK and KDP candidates and have a joint candidate, which is approved by Masoud Barzani. Bafel Talabani said he will discuss the suggestion with his political bureau.

Today, at 2:00 p.m., the PUK's political bureau in a meeting rejected the second proposal too.

All parties are now waiting for Wednesday's parliamentary meeting, in which is expected that the legal quorum would not be met and the president of the republic will not be elected.