INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Shafaq News/ The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Wednesday reiterated his rejection of "sharing the cake" with the
Shiite Coordination Framework, dismissing consensus as an "end to the country."Al-Sadr's remarks came after the failure of the Iraqi
parliament's third attempt to elect a president of the republic earlier today."I will not strike a consensus with you
Consensus is an end to the country
No for consensus in all forms.""What do you call a political impasse is better than consensus with you, than sharing the cake with you
Nothing good comes from a consensus quota government.""How could you form a consensus with the blocs when you have disrespected all the
components and partners that you failed to bring them in with you?"Addressing the Iraqi people, al-Sadr said, "you will not go back to your
previous agony...Our Homeland will not be exposed to reliance, occupation, normalization, and quota."
