Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies held a seminar entitled ” What’s After October: Can emerging movements tip the scales?”
The seminar included the hosting of three speakers from three emerging movements preparing to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections:
Salah Alarbawi – National Awareness Movement
Saif Alkhalidy – Spokesman for Tayar Al-Marhala
Mushriq Alfirayji – The Democratic Nazil Movement
Representatives of the three parties and movements spoke of their political organization’s vision for early elections, and what were the chances of a change in the political map following the early elections.
Salah Alarbawi, head of National Awareness Movement, said that “The discrete arms affects the transparency and results of the elections in such a way as to prevent the possibility of change, as well as the procurement of candidates for nomination on certain electoral lists, all as a stumbling block for the desired change.” Alarbawi also considered that the transparency of elections is based on four main pillars: “electoral awareness, equal opportunities, electoral security, and electoral integrity.”
Saif Alkhalidy, Spokesman for Tayar Al-Marhala, “For more than a decade, political leaders have not succeeded in building an integrated political system,” adding, “We support Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi because he is pursuing an approach that contributes to nation-building and a political system that gains legitimacy from the people. It is in this sense that Tayar Al-Marhala poses as an anti-violence and pro-State. “
Mushriq Alfirayji, a member of the Democratic Nazil Movement, considered that his movement “adopts an approach based on supporting services, infrastructure, and job creation, within the slogan of work and housing, which forms the basis of its electoral and political agenda.”
LINK: https://www.bayancenter.org/2021/04/6816
