Adel Abdul Mahdi’s resignation has been approved by Iraq’s parliament following months of deadly violence that has claimed hundreds of lives.
The government of Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi ended Sunday after two months of violent unrest that has left more than 420 people dead and thousands mourning them in nationwide marches.
Adil Abdul-Mahdi, ex-Prime Minister of Iraq, speaks during an interview with the German Press Agency.Tens of thousands have vented their anger at a governing class they despise as inept, corrupt and beholden to foreign powers, especially neighbouring Iran, whose consulate in the city of Najaf was torched last Wednesday.
With the parliament's main Shiite blocs"fragmented, no 'largest faction exists," wrote Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, president of the Arbil-based Middle East Research Institute."Demonstrators are hard to please," said Mr Ala'Aldeen."The carnival goes on and, meanwhile, violence continues."Just before the parliamentary session began, another protester was shot dead in the capital, medical sources said.
Previously, most Sunni-majority areas had refrained from protesting, fearing that opposing the central government would earn them the labels of being"terrorists" or supporters of Saddam.
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