Shiite MP Hanane Al-Fatlaoui’s campaign headquarters, located in a villa in the center of the city of Hilla, an hour south of Baghdad, was always full until the election silence, three days before the legislative elections on Tuesday, November 11 in Iraq. Tribal leaders and medical staff, their sympathizers and relatives, came to reassure him of their voices and those of their families, and to state, in passing, complaint.
The 57-year-old dermatologist, who became a member of parliament in 2004, was praised by his supporters for his outspokenness, but criticized for the lack of action of a new generation seeking change, seeking a sixth term in office.
Once allied with former Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (2006-2014), he was joined by his former pupil, Prime Minister Mohammed Chia Al-Soudani. The latter, who came to power in 2022 through the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shiite parties and militias, when it had only two deputies in the Assembly, joined forces with political heavyweights and tribal figures to form an electoral coalition, the Coalition for Reconstruction and Development. He hopes to make it the first Shiite political force, with more than 50 deputies, and thereby win a second term as prime minister – a position allocated to the Shiite majority in Iraq’s power-sharing system.
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