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Iraqi PM to resign after deadly anti-government protests
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| Contributor | Bojicat |
| Last Edited | Bojicat Nov 29, 2019 07:58am |
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| Author | AlJazeera |
| News Date | Friday, November 29, 2019 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has said he will submit his resignation to the country's parliament after a day of intense bloodshed amid mass anti-government demonstrations.
Abdul Mahdi's decision, announced in a statement on Friday, came in response to a call for a change of leadership by Iraq's top Shia leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
"I will submit to parliament an official memorandum resigning from the current prime ministry so that the parliament can review its choices," he said.
Earlier on Friday, al-Sistani said that parliament, which elected the year-old government of Abdul Mahdi, should "reconsider its options".
"We call upon the House of Representatives from which this current government emerged to reconsider its options in that regard," al-Sistani said in his weekly sermon delivered in the holy city of Najaf via a representative. |
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