The political crisis in the world’s sixth-largest oil producer risks boiling over into violent conflict
s do not bother to show up for work. Today it is full—though far short of a quorum. On July 30th supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, a cleric and politician, stormed parliament. They have settled in for what they promise will be an open-ended sit-in. Volunteers have been bringing meals and tea; juice vendors roam the aisles.
A series of leaked recordings, said to be of a conversation involving Mr Maliki, whose faction won the third-largest bloc in the election, has added to the tumult. He called Mr Sadr a traitor and claimed there was a British plot to install him in power. Mr Maliki insists the recordings are faked; many of the ramblings they contain are absurd. Britain is entangled finding its own new prime minister, let alone able to foist one on Iraq.
Mr Sadr’s defenders also talk of overhauling a broken political system by changing the constitution and electoral law, perhaps shifting Iraq from a parliamentary regime to a presidential one. “The only way to make sense [of his withdrawal] is to bring down the political system,” says one senior official. Such talk may resonate with Iraqis frustrated by corruption and dismal services. But burning the system to save it rarely yields sparkling results.
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