이라크 티슈린 운동의 함의와 광장 민주주의 실현 가능성 연구

The Implications of Iraq s Tishreen Movement and Feasibility of Democracy through Square Protest

The political legitimacy of Iraq, which collapsed in 2003, faced a challenge from the Tishreen movement in 2021. The protesters used the 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election as a test bed of democratic politics, but did not induce widespread citizen participation due to low turnout and did not fundamentally changed the existing political landscape. Nevertheless, it produced positive results in that the civic support group entered the political realm anew. The positive political experience achieved certain results in the realization of democracy in that it recognized that public opinion is an important political measure in Iraq s political ecosystem. As the demand for governance has the ultimate goal of realizing the demands of direct democracy expressed at the square through representative democracy, if corrupt and dysfunctional governance does not show fundamental changes and the legitimacy crisis deepens, the potential for another Tishreen uprising remains.