Aqil Abbas, a political writer, said on Wednesday that the call to amend the election law is a political move and a part of the undeclared conflict between Nouri al-Maliki and Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. The former is trying to use the amendment to hurt al-Sudani’s chances of winning the next election or to hint at the possibility of changing the law to reach a deal.
Abbas asserts, “Maliki and Al-Sudani are engaged in an unreported conflict.” In the event that the last option prevails with regards to framing a discretionary union, he will take from Al-Maliki’s crowd, and here lies the issue, as the two offer a similar crowd generally. This crowd was recently passed on to Maliki and nobody contended with him over it until Al-Sudani came. As a result, Al-Maliki is trying to use the issue of amending the election law to harm Al-Sudani’s chances of winning the next election or to hint at the possibility of amending the law in order to reach a compromise.
“Amending the election law is hard, and everyone remembers the first amendment that was made after the 2022 elections only after everyone in the Coordination Framework agreed to it. Even with the presence of a parliament speaker who is close to Al-Sudani, it is unlikely that the election law will be amended without agreement or the overwhelming majority of the Coordination Framework. Consequently, the call to revise the political race regulation is a political move and not a genuinely parliamentary one, except if a few things change inside the Coordination Structure and everybody or a large portion of them join against Al-Sudani, and this is improbable,” he pushed.
