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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel with Bill Rajo and his colleague, Bridget Toomey.

Bridget's reporting on the Iraqi elections scheduled for November 11th this year.

First, I read of it. However, it sounds familiar. This is like blast from the past, Bill.

There are factions in Baghdad. Imagine that. Bridget, give us an understanding.

Your item in a long war journal suggests that this is a tension that's developed, or has it been longstanding two different Shiite parties? So the tension within the Shia faction in Iraq has been longstanding.

There's, right now the coordination framework is governing, it's the governing group.

It's an alliance of Shia parties.

And while they came together in 2022 to govern, they've never been completely united.

They have differences amongst them. And then on the other hand, we also have Mukta Dahl

Sutter, a popular Shia figure who is not part of this coordination framework and who is not currently

planning on running, though there's always uncertainty about his plans. Within the coordination

framework, the recent announcement that they made was that they'd be

running separately, the different parties that make up this alliance in the November

election, and then they would be reuniting after the election in the hopes that they would

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