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Al-Kazemi’s Advisor Identifies The Negative Effects Due To The Lack Of Approval Of The Budget
Economie Today, 18:59 Baghdad – INA – Nassar Al-Hajj, the financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Salih, explained, today, Sunday, the alternative laws for the budget in the minimum treatments, while he warned of five negative effects when the budget was delayed.
Saleh said, to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that
“the alternative laws to the annual federal budget law are treatments for the minimum in the conduct of economic life in the country, such as the financial management law and its current applications or the recently adopted emergency food security law.”
He explained,
“The most negative point in not passing a law on the general budget is the delay in approving new government investment projects,
especially large and strategic projects, which leads to delays or shortfalls in economic growth rates.” He continued,
“This shortcoming extends its negative effects to the coming years due to the faltering growth of the great national capital accumulation, and the
transformation of spending into a phenomenon limited to consumption only, which is fed by imports,” noting that
“this leads to growing cases of stagnation and economic stumbling at the end.”
In the end, the levels of underemployment or crowdedness of unemployment are in all cases.
https://www.ina.iq/162178–.html
The President Of The Region Launches An Initiative To Solve The Political Crisis And Invites The Political Parties To Come To Erbil
Today, Sunday, the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, launched an initiative to solve the political crisis in Iraq, calling on the political parties to come to Erbil and start an open and inclusive dialogue, and an agreement based on the higher interests of the country.
Barzani said, in a press statement, “We are following with deep concern the political situation and developments in Iraq,” calling on “the various political parties to exercise utmost restraint and engage in direct dialogue in order to solve problems.”
He added, “Increasing the complexity of matters under these sensitive circumstances endangers societal peace, security and stability in the country,” noting: “While we respect the will of the peaceful demonstration of the masses, we stress the importance of protecting state institutions and the security, life and property of citizens and state employees.”
He continued, “The people of Iraq deserve a better life, present and future, and the joint duty and responsibility of all forces and parties is to work together to get Iraq out of this sensitive and dangerous circumstance.”
He stated, “The Kurdistan region will, as always, be part of the solution,” calling “the concerned political parties in Iraq to come to Erbil, their second capital, and start an open and inclusive dialogue to reach an understanding and agreement based on the country’s higher interests.”
He stressed, “There is no problem that cannot be resolved through dialogue.”
https://www.radionawa.com/all-detail.aspx?jimare=30530
The United Nations Calls On All Iraqi Parties To Take Immediate Steps To Avoid Violence
Today, Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all Iraqi actors to take effective steps to calm down and avoid violence, stressing the importance of rising above differences and forming an effective national government.
“I am following with concern the ongoing protests in Iraq, during which many people have been injured,” Guterres said in a statement.
He pointed out that “freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are among the basic rights that must be respected at all times.”
Guterres appealed to all relevant actors to “take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation, avoid further violence, and ensure the protection of peaceful demonstrators and state institutions.”
The Secretary-General urged all parties and actors to “rise above their differences and form an effective national government, through peaceful and inclusive dialogue, that will be able to meet the long-standing demands for reform, without further delay.” https://www.radionawa.com/all-detail.aspx?jimare=30529
Washington Calls On Political Forces To Exercise Restraint And Refrain From Violence
The US Embassy in Baghdad called on political forces to exercise restraint and refrain from violence.
The embassy said in a statement: “We are closely monitoring the disturbances that occurred in Baghdad and are concerned about reports of violence,” noting that “the right to peaceful demonstration and freedom of expression are guaranteed in the Iraqi constitution.”
She added, “We join our voice in calling on the Iraqi political parties from all walks of life to adhere to restraint, avoid violence and resolve their political differences through a peaceful process in accordance with the Iraqi constitution.” https://www.radionawa.com/all-detail.aspx?jimare=30525
Calls To Form A Consensus Iraqi Government To Save The Iraqi Economy And Prevent Iraq From Sliding Into Civil War
Posted On2022-07-31 By Sotaliraq Warnings of a civil war in Iraq, a hungry uprising due to political conflicts, and the Sadrist movement’s storming of Parliament
The organization of foreign interventions in Iraq to form the political map of Iraq will lead to disastrous results
Press Release
The Justice and Development Organization, a human rights organization, warned of a violent civil war inside Iraq due to the political polarization between the various political blocs, including the Sadrist movement and the coordination framework, and the differences over the formation of the next Iraqi government.
The official spokesman for the organization and political researcher Zaidan Al-Qanai stressed that foreign interventions in Iraq to try to draw the political map of the Iraqi state will lead to disastrous results that may lead to disastrous results.
It is developing into a civil war, depleting the resources of the Iraqi state, and the outbreak of a new popular uprising in Iraq, similar to the revolution of the hungry
The organization called on all political parties in Iraq, parliament and political and partisan forces to form a consensual Iraqi government to save the Iraqi economy and prevent Iraq from sliding into civil war scenarios. LINK
Why Is It Time To Change Or Restructure The Political System?
Sunday, 31 July 2022 11:48 AM Dr.. Basil Hussein
It has become clear that Iraq, as a country, is going through an exceptional stage, which has created expectations that it has begun to move towards an unknown future, and
this is due to the following factors:
- Every political system is born with tools that enable it to confront challenges and threats,
but the 2005 system could not but be a crisis system and not a solution system.
The main mechanisms such as the constitution and the institutions that were supposed to be a basic reference for the solution, became part of the crisis system.
- The countries whose totalitarian regimes were overthrown have gone through a stage of democratic transition, but
what is recorded of this system is that it has become stuck at this stage and only made partial and faltering steps towards strengthening democracy, as
it placed it in a gray area between dictatorship and democracy.
Temporary democratization has become out of the question, as we are facing a kind of settlement for this transitional phase.
- In the midst of this anxious stage, the model of “facade democracy” was born in Iraq, which practices the democratic form without democratic content or democracy without democrats, which led to a kind of competitive authoritarianism or electoral authoritarianism as one of the products of facade democracy.
- It follows that the legitimacy of democracy
It is in constant decline and erosion, and thus a crisis of real representation was born, and the electoral fund is no longer sufficient to prove this representation due to the lack of confidence in its integrity or in the political environment that is its vital field.
- The failure of the political system to build its legitimacy by bypassing the legal and official frameworks that were registered on political practices
- The political system was based on a basic idea, which is consensual democracy, which is based on two basic ideas, the
first is power sharing, and the
second is autonomy for groups.
Power-sharing means that all ethnic or religious elements participate in the decision-making process through the formation of coalition governments, and
this denominator comes down to other public institutions.
While autonomy gives groups the right to manage their internal affairs, and
the theorist of this model Liephart sees that federalism is the best expression for this autonomy.
- The supposed goal of this model is to maintain the cohesion of the state in a pluralistic society,
but the distorted application of this system led the country to further disintegration, which gave rise to doubts about the efficacy of this model in solving Iraqi problems.
- The Iraqi experience proved that the inclusion of religion in democratic practices and issues related to the problems of state building is an inclusion that harmed both religion and the state and re-questioned Islam and democracy and the extent of the conflict between them, based on the idea of a deep-rooted contradiction between Islamic values and democracy,
or as Samuel Huntington sees in his book (The Wave). The third) that Islam and Confucianism are among the most severe cultural challenges to the global spread of democracy
- Any system of government, as Philippe Schmitter sees it, is a
set of principles that determine the methods of assuming public office, the
qualities of the various representatives required to hold these positions, and the
rules followed in making binding decisions through the institutionalization process
This is what the 2005 system failed to do.
- There is no doubt that institutionalization and stability are closely related, and
one of the most important causes of instability is the failure to build institutions in Iraq, as we are faced with institutional structures without solid institutional bases,
which created the illusion of the existence of institutions, and
in a pluralistic society institutionalization contributes to building citizenship and to the submission of individuals and groups
It also helps to build a neutral state in a way that guarantees the confidence of the actors of society and reduces the processes of conflict and conflict.
- There is a great conviction among the political actors that this system is a political product and not the product of a political process that was formulated by an external will, and
therefore there is a desire on all sides to change the form and content of this political product due to lack of conviction or to achieve more gains
That stems from a feeling that this product or its rules are unreliable, and the fragility of its structure, with an underlying lack of respect for it.
- The entry of the forces of political arms into the cycle of political and economic life, and the attempts of the actors in it to impose their will on the group against their will,
which contradicts the simplest rules of democracy in that arms and democracy are opposites that do not combine and do not rise together.
- The transformation of corruption from a phenomenon to a structure into an institution.
Indeed, it is the institution of corruption that has led the country in public and in secret, and
it is one of the most important factors that threaten the country and the future of generations.
It is best to say that the 2005 regime failed in the equation of challenge and response,
which created a kind of crippled political system,
whose crisis was exacerbated by the nature and content of its main actors, as well as the impact of negative external factors that put increasing pressure on it and deepened the crisis of its failure.
Therefore, changing it or restructuring it is an imposition and duty within a national project that responds to all the challenges and threats facing the state and society.
Without this project, the fate of the country and the people will go toward choices.
Not least the disintegration, struggles and constant failures. https://nnciraq.com/144385/
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