The governorates of southern Iraq witnessed a student strike today, Sunday, in schools and universities, and students roamed the streets carrying banners and chanting slogans rejecting the party’s candidate, Muhammad Allawi, and demanding an election that exclusively represents the demonstration squares, according to Anadolu News Agency.
In the province of Najaf, school students and the University of Kufa in the province went on strike, roaming the streets with marches rejecting Allawi’s taking over, the formation of the new government, to succeed the government of the resigned prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
In Al-Muthanna province, the streets of the city of Samawah witnessed student marches, which confirmed the continuation of the strike until the demands of the protesters were fulfilled, most notably the choice of protesters in the sit-in squares of the Prime Minister, according to the demonstrator Muhammad al-Hakim, in an interview with “Anatolia.”
University and school students in Dhi Qar Governorate announced their rejection to the resumption of official working hours, and their continued strike until the government and political parties responded to their demands.
“The students roamed the streets of the city of Nasiriyah, in large marches, carrying banners and chanting slogans rejecting party candidate Muhammad Allawi, and demanding the election of a figure who is nominated by the demonstration squad exclusively,” Muzahim Shalash, one of the activists of the civil movement in Nasiriyah, told Anatolia.
The protesters are demanding an impartial independent prime minister who previously did not hold high positions, away from subordination to the parties and neighboring countries, as well as the departure and accountability of all political elites accused of corruption and waste of state funds, which have governed since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003.
Since the beginning of October 2019, Iraq has witnessed unprecedented protests, punctuated by violence that has left more than 600 people dead, according to the country’s president, Barham Salih, and Amnesty International.
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