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Iraq: Activists gather for new demonstrations

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Iraqi activists in Baghdad, Dhi Qar and Babil said today, Friday, that they began mobilizing to organize new demonstrations, the dates of which have not been set yet, to demand the settlement of electoral benefits and the formation of a new government that can face the waves of high prices and unemployment, while emphasizing the demands of the first demonstrations that erupted in the last quarter. From 2019 and lasted for more than 14 months in more than 10 cities in the south and center of the country and Baghdad.

Despite the end of the demonstrations with the closure of the government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the last protest fields in Baghdad and Dhi Qar in the south of the country, and the dispersal of the sit-ins, some of which took place by force, the Iraqi civil movement is still so far looming the possibility of re-demonstrations at any time, which observers consider a major pressure card on the forces The political situation, many of which declined in popularity following popular protests calling for service and political reforms and an end to sectarian quotas in running the country.

According to activists from Babil Governor