Iraq's Prime Minister has ordered the arrest of Shia Muslim activists who stormed parliament in Baghdad on Saturday.
Haider al-Abadi said those who caused damage and attacked police should be brought to justice.
Supporters
of cleric Moqtada Sadr broke through barricades of the fortified Green
Zone in protest against delays in approving a new cabinet.
A state of emergency was declared in Baghdad after the protests.
Supporters
of Mr Sadr want MPs to push through plans to replace ministers with
political affiliations with non-partisan technocrats.
Powerful parties in parliament have refused to approve the change for several weeks.
The
BBC's Ahmed Maher in Baghdad says this is one of the country's worst
political crises since the US-led invasion and downfall of Saddam
Hussein in 2003.
Systemic political patronage has aided corruption
in Iraq, depleting the government's resources as it struggles to cope
with declining oil revenue and the cost of the war against the jihadist
group Islamic State (IS).
Earlier this week, hundreds of thousands of people marched towards the Green Zone, the most secure part of Baghdad that houses embassies and government buildings, to protest against the political deadlock.
Parliament
again failed to reach a quorum on Saturday, after which the protest
escalated and saw hundreds of people tear down blast walls and storm the
parliament building.
Inside the chamber, jubilant demonstrators took up the seats of the
deputies and posed for photos. Nearby, United Nations and embassy staff
were on lockdown inside their compounds, Reuters reported.
After the protest, demonstrators set up camp outside the parliament, and many were still there on Sunday.
Despite
Mr Abadi's order - made after he visited the damaged parliament
building - there are no indications that any arrests have taken place.
Iraq's
system of sharing government jobs has long been criticised for
promoting unqualified candidates and encouraging corruption.
The government is carefully balanced between party and religious loyalties, but the country ranks 161st of 168 on corruption watchdog Transparency International's corruption perceptions index.
"Either
corrupt (officials) and quotas remain or the entire government will be
brought down and no one will be exempted," Mr Sadr said in a televised
address shortly before parliament was stormed.
Mr Abadi, who came
to power in 2014, has promised to stamp out corruption and ease
sectarian tensions, but he has failed to far to introduce a new
technocratic cabinet.
Who is Moqtada Sadr?
The Shia cleric and his militia group, the Mehdi Army, gained
prominence after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. galvanising
anti-US sentiment.
Mr Sadr's followers clashed repeatedly with US forces, whose withdrawal the cleric consistently demanded.
An arrest warrant was issued for Mr Sadr in 2004 in connection with the murder of a rival cleric.
His
militia was also blamed for the torture and killing of thousands of
Sunnis in the sectarian carnage of 2006 and 2007. Mr Sadr fled to Iran
during that period.
In 2011, Mr Sadr returned from his
self-imposed exile to Iraq, taking a more conciliatory tone and calling
for Iraqi unity and peace.
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