The most likely outcome is a coalition that can sustain the political status quo but perhaps not the social peace.
- Lahib Higel
- ICG
All is still not well in Iraqi politics some eighteen years after the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime.
In 2019, a wave of popular protest known as the Tishreen movement swept across the country, as demonstrators called for fundamental reform of the post-2003 political system.
Elections held in October, which the government brought forward by six months in response to anger on the street, are the…