Another Federal Supreme Court Case...But the Sadrists Don’t Want Their Seats Back… 🧵1/7
The Federal Supreme Court (FSC) has scheduled a hearing for the end of September regarding the case brought forth by Dhia al-Din al-Budairi to petition for the invalidation of the resignations of seventy-three Sadrist MPs. 2/7
The political affiliation of al-Budairi is not known. Sadrists have shown private sms asking the lawyer to pull out of the case but he refuses & says that his motivation is to challenge the legal argument that the speaker is the only one who can approve the MPs’ resignation. 3/7
Despite the case, through his mouthpiece Mohammed Salah al-Iraqi, Muqtada al-Sadr has made clear that the Sadrist Bloc will not return to parliament – and in fact has now openly begun to call for their former Tripartite Alliance (TA) partners, Seyada & KDP, to follow suit. 4/7
#RDG assesses that the TS’s withdrawal is unlikely, particularly as the Shia Coordination Framework (SCF) is preparing to hold the first parliamentary session in months after the Arbaeen holiday – likely somewhere around September 20. 5/7
There are some rumors presently indicating that there will be a SCF delegation visiting Hanana after the Arbaeen holiday as well but given the continued “no” approach of al-Sadr, #RDG views this as unlikely. 6/7
We at #RDG view that the FSC would not struggle to find a way to reinstate the Sadrist MPs who resigned in June this year from parliament if there is political consensus to do so. 7/7 🧵
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