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Baghdad - The announcement dealt a severe blow to Abadi's hopes of holding onto his post through a parliamentary bloc.

By AFP

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Published: Mon 10 Sep 2018, 12:15 AM

The two leading groups in Iraq's parliament on Saturday called on Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi to resign, after lawmakers held an emergency meeting on unrest shaking the country's south.
"We demand the government apologise to the people and resign immediately," said Hassan Al Aqouli, spokesman for the list of populist cleric Moqtada Sadr that won the most seats in a May election.
The announcement dealt a severe blow to Abadi's hopes of holding onto his post through a parliamentary bloc unveiled just days earlier with Sadr, a former militia chief. Ahmed Al Assadi, spokesman for the second-largest list, the Conquest Alliance, condemned "the government's failure to resolve the crisis in Basra".
The Conquest Alliance was "on the same wavelength" as Sadr's Marching Towards Reform list and they would work together to form a new government, Assadi said.


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