Iraq's parliament is due to reconvene on Monday to pass a new electoral law, as political deadlock continues to prevent the naming of a new prime minister. Anti-government protests have raged across the country, as demonstrators refuse to accept a prime minister nominated by the ruling political parties. More than 450 people have been killed since a wave of unrest began in early October. Protesters, most of them young, are demanding an overhaul of a political system, which they see as profoundly corrupt and keeping many Iraqis in poverty.