Massive turnout. I didn't realise Iranian involvement in Iraq was so unpopular, it seems nationalists wont tolerate it.
The elections say otherwise.
The elections reflected this sentiment. Iran loyalists lost.
How they lost, care to explain?
Hadi got 2nd place (not a victory), and Maliki plummeted. The popular vote did not favour hardline Iranian loyalist parties. Vast majority voted for the alternatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_parliamentary_election,_2018
Yes, that is how multi party system works. Now the first and the second party will have to make coalition in order to form government. They even invited and Abadi party in to this.
No..... he didn't have to form a coalition with Hadi. Hadi's party lost. Sadrists won. The votes were counted. More Iraqis voted Sadr, less Iraqis voted Hadi. More Iraqis voted Abadi, less Iraqis voted Maliki. The election results reflect the sentiment you see in the video. The coalition was not up for popular vote, that's a whole different story. You're intentionally blurring the results when the numbers are right in front of you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_parliamentary_election,_2018
So by your logic everybody lost, because there is not SUCH THING AS POPULAR VOTE in Iraq. Either you have 51% and form government or you make coalition, in this case with Hadi and Sadr + Abadi. I cant call this coalition anti iranian.
Let me explain again, the original poster said:
> Massive turnout. I didn't realise Iranian involvement in Iraq was so unpopular
You said:
> The elections say otherwise.
Reality: The elections do not say otherwise. On the contrary, the election results reflect the sentiment in the video as most Iraqis voted for parties that are not Iran loyalists, as the numbers show.
Most iraqis voted for parties that are either pro iranian or dont have ideology problem to form coalition with such parties. So your arguments are irrelevant.
You're just poking holes in the results then, in one instance you question whether Sadrists won, and in another instance you question if Sadrists are not pro-Iran. You're over rationalizing and over analyzing to twist the results in your favour.
Then why did they elect such pro-iranian politicians 🤔
Neither Abadi nor Sadr are pro-Iranian by any stretch of the imagination. I don't have an emoji for that one, though...
They are not anti iranian too especially Abadi so whats your point?
So, NOT being anti-Iranian makes them pro-Iranian?
you realize that the world is not binary, right?
I don't understand to whom you're replying.
Clockwise must have replied to the wrong comment.
Yes that's what he's saying...
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