The early Council of Representatives elections on October 10, 2021 were a pivotal event in Iraq. The hope was that these elections would be the first step to exit the dysfunctional political reality and to transition towards a system of governance based on the concept of political majority. However, that was not actually the case. The results of the elections instead reflected these increasingly severe social divisions, and they may portend a deterioration of the current situation to unimaginable levels.