Politics
Early results in Iraq election favor populist cleric Al-Sadr
A populist coalition organized by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr emerged as the front-runner Monday with more than half the vote counted in Iraq’s national elections. Partial returns from Saturday’s balloting — the first since Iraq declared victory over Daesh — were announced by the country’s electoral commission and put Al-Sadr’s political alliance in the lead in six provinces, including Baghdad. Remembered for leading an insurgency against US forces and inciting sectarian bloodshed against the Sunni population, Al-Sadr has in recent years sought to recast himself as a populist, railing against corruption and failing services and striking a political alliance with Iraq’s secularists and Communist Party.
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