Iraqi Shiite leader Sadr to sit out October election
Muqtada al-Sadr also said he would withdraw his support for the current government and its replacement.
Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr says he will boycott Iraq’s upcoming general election, announcing that he is withdrawing support from the current and future governments.
“In order to preserve what is left of the nation and to save the nation that has been burnt by the corrupt and is still burning, I inform you that I will not be participating in the elections. For the nation is more important than all of that,” Sadr said in a televised speech on Thursday.
