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“He may take advantage of a wave of summertime protests if they happen.” Nigeria

Iraq’s former prime minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during an interview with AFP in Baghdad . Abadi, who came to office in 2014 without an election as Iraq reeled from the Islamic State group grabbing a third of the country, is eyeing a sequel to his turbulent single term, he hinted to AFP, warning a failure to tackle sectarianism and corruption risks seeing his country “fall apart”.

“We have good intentions,” he said coyly when asked about his ambitions in a wide-ranging AFP interview at his home in Baghdad’s “Green Zone”.The 67-year-old, who came to office in 2014 without an election as Iraq reeled from the Islamic State group grabbing a third of the country, has sent out feelers to major political blocs who may help him win allies in parliament, a government source said.

Abadi oversaw both the fight against the Islamic State group and a tough response by Baghdad to an independence referendum by the country’s Kurds, but his bloc fared poorly in national elections last year.Abadi painted himself as an opposition figure who could help “guide” the current government. “In the past, sectarianism was used as a weapon in the conflict between factions to divide up the spoils of war,” he said.

Several months earlier, he had ordered federal troops to retake disputed territories and adjacent oil fields from Kurdish forces after an independence referendum in the autonomous region that saw an overwhelming vote in favor of secession.Abadi remains largely disliked by the autonomous Kurdish regional government , led by the Kurdistan Democratic Party , which he indirectly criticized.“But there is a problem with some of the parties which control the region, its wealth and its oil,” Abadi said.

And in the regional tug-of-war between the US and Iran, both allies of Iraq, Abadi has been seen as closer to Washington’s camp.

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