Iraq's caretaker prime minister convened a second round of talks Monday with Iraqi leaders aimed at resolving the ongoing political crisis between rival Shiite blocs, but the representatives of an influential cleric failed once again to attend the gathering.
The seat reserved for Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's party was empty as Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi met with al-Sadr's chief political rivals in the Iran-backed camp, as well as President Barham Salih and UN representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.
The participants agreed to form a technical committee to develop a road map to find common ground and hold early elections. His Iran-backed rivals in the Coordination Framework, an alliance of mostly Shiite parties, agree in principle to holding early polls but disagree on the mechanism. Al-Sadr is demanding that the judiciary dissolve the legislature but his rivals are insisting the parliament should convene to do this. They are also at odds over the current electoral law that would govern the polls and which the Coordination Framework wants amended.
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