"Elections are an internal matter,” he said in a tweet as a little more than a week Iraqis will go to the polls on October 10.

Earlier this summer, Sadr said he would not participate in this year's elections, but later backtracked and declared that his movement would participate after all.

His Sairoon list won a plurality of seats in the Council of Representatives in 2018 and observers expect him to do well this cycle.

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