KDP and PUK Among Shia conflicts

2022-02-23 17:23:51
The Coordination Framework parties announce a new coalition, the PUK is among the coalition, and the KDP has an agreement with Sadr and Sunnis. The numbers show that the KDP coalition is bigger than the PUK coalition in parliament.
A New Alliance
The parties in the Coordination Framework (Nuri al-Maliki, Hadi Ameri, Qais Khazaali, Faleh Fayaz, Haider al-Abadi, and Ammar Al-Hakim) intend to announce a new Alliance.
The new Alliance is called "National Stability," as it is mentioned, apart from the parliamentarians of the Coordination Framework, the coalition includes some independent parliamentarians.
"In the next session of the Iraqi parliament, the "National Stability" alliance will be announced," said Mohammed Shammari, a member of parliament from the State of Law Coalition.
The Iraqi parliament will meet next Monday to vote on the formation of committees and divide parliamentarians into committees, which means the new coalition will be announced on Monday.
according to Shammari, the number of parliamentarians in the new coalition is 88 and is likely to increase.
The effort to form an alliance is aimed at establishing a majority parliamentary bloc, the bloc that will be appointed to form a new cabinet in Iraq.
KDP and PUK in the equation
The post of prime minister after the fall of Saddam's regime was given to Shia movements as a political ritual. But the results of last October's election divided Shias into two opposing sides. Muqtada al-Sadr, as the first winner of the election, joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Sunnis.
The Sadr Coalition has more than 170 seats in the parliament, in return for which the parties within the Coordination Framework, known as the Iran-backed forces, have around 130 members, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is with this side.
In this case, the majority of parliament is still with the tripartite coalition, Sadr + Barzani + Halbousi, as they have more seats than the new alliance.
According to the Iraqi Federal Court's decision, the process of appointing the largest parliamentary bloc follows the election of the President of the Republic. Parliament determines the majority bloc and directs it to the new Iraqi president. President also appoints the bloc to form the new cabinet.
Disrupting the election process of Iraq's new president relates more to the conflicts within the Shia home than the PUK and PUK conflicts over the post of President.
The parties within the Cooperation Framework with the PUK have been able to control one-third of the parliament seats, thus creating obstacles to the election of the new president, and want to dismantle the Sadr+ Barzani+ Halbousi coalition.
In return, the trilateral coalition remained united, and even though the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is one of the parties in the coalition, has suffered some severe blows by the federal court. Now both Shia groups are betting on the abolition of the other, and Iran is against the Sadr Alliance.
KDP and PUK Among Shia conflicts
After the fall of the former Iraqi regime, this is the first time the Kurds have entered the conflicts within the Shia home. The Kurds and Sunnis have always avoided conflicts within the Shia home until they (Shia Groups) agreed on the prime minister's candidacy. But this time before the election was held, the KDP has signed an agreement with Sadr, and after the election, the PUK joined the parties in the Coordination framework.
With this division among Shia sides, the KDP and the PUK opened the hand of the federal court over the Kurdistan Region, and after 10 years, the court independently made its decision on the issue of selling the region's oil, calling it unconstitutional.
If the division of parliamentary seats remains the same. the legal quorum for holding the parliament session to elect the president will not be completed, and the process will be delayed further since the session requires the presence of 220 parliamentarians out of 329 parliamentarians. So far none of the two Shia sides and their allies' seats in the parliament have reached this number yet. Also, the process of forming the new government will not begin without electing the president.
