Al-Abadi said in a tweet that he was among the first to support an early parliamentary elections that would win popular confidence, but the recent polls failed in that objective.

Meanwhile, Hadi al-Ameri, Head of the Conquest Alliance (al-Fatah Alliance), expressed his rejection to preliminary reports of vote counting.

In any scenario, he said, we will defend the votes of our candidates and voters with full force.

Al-Ameri’s objection came after the announcement that Al-Fatah Alliance won 14 seats in Parliament after it had 48 seats in the 2018 elections.

This Monday, the Electoral Commission notified that in the legislative polls, the Sadr Movement won 73 seats, followed by the Progress coalition with 38 and the State with 37 out of 329 seats at stake.

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