The democratic experiment in Iraq ... the governments of quotas and motionless demanding reform

Author: bian3 on: Tuesday 09/15/2015 11:40




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Although the Iraqi constitution indicates that federal, state, system of government is republican, parliamentary democracy, the majority of political analysts and observers believe that democracy in Iraq has not formed a concept believes in social justice and active participation in political decision-making, the Constitution, the rule of law, transparency, multi-party, parliamentary life, public and private freedoms, civil state, citizenship, equality, the right to difference, all this talk about "form" of democracy, however, is still a long way to it.

The world celebrates today, Tuesday, the International Day of Democracy slogan "providing space for civil society", according to the United Nations body, the choice of civil society as an emblem of the International Day for Democracy, is an opportunity to remind governments of the importance of a strong and free existence of civil society, as a successful and stable democracies attributes.

Iraq democracy in the making


He sees a spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Saad al-Hadithi, that the democratic experiment in Iraq is still a fledgling in the process of formation and evolution, noting that Iraq's modern era of democratic construction and is still in transition from unilaterally totalitarian regime to a pluralistic civil system democratic, federal.


A newborn News Agency Baghdad International / WAP / that "the roots of democracy in the ingrate began with the founding of the modern state in 0.1921 period of the monarchy was the fact that the nucleus to build a democratic political action system in accordance with the mechanism and the philosophy of democratic rule, but after 1958 turned inwards that experience after that successive military coups and coup successively dominated by the referee for many years. "

He added, "After the 2003 Iraq returned to produce the democratic experience was born after unanimously and in harsh conditions after outside interference and is still the result of experience in the process of formation and evolution," noting that "Iraq is still modern era of democratic building we are now in a transition phase move from unilateral totalitarian regime to a pluralistic civil democratic, federal system, "pointing out that" this transition period vividly engaged in Iraq and tries to advance towards building a well-established tradition of regulatory action and to find a legislative legal system and the institutions of a democratic state based mechanisms of action. "

He explained, that "Iraq will benefit from the experiences of the mistakes that are passed through this experience throughout that period and tries to correct the aiming and the tracks and works on the concept of building a state of institutions away from the state parties and sects and components."


Mass movement

And witnessing the Iraqi street mobility turnout and widespread in much of the southern its provinces and the center and the capital Baghdad, where he came up big protest demonstrations denouncing the fact the service and in particular the deterioration of the system power supply in weather not exceed the temperature for the fifty-C, the Iraqi street is upset with all the services and the corruption of the political class and bleeding blood It did not stop for years, where does terrorism did.

What more needs Iraqi reality are demonstrations, demonstration and expression in a year dominated by the state and the clergy, it must be protesters on the reality of a service lousy politician corrupt and security worsening with the high level of unemployment, on the one hand, on the other hand that any movement of my people will move the political stalemate dominated by a corrupt political class that does not have a fan base as controlled by a group of heads of blocs and who do not exceed the number of fingers.

In this regard, said Sabri, said that "the demonstrations is a political act and motionless mass civilian away from partisanship and sectarianism, and this is positive and the fruits of the democratic experiment," noting that "for the first time are seeing a movement representing the will of the general and comprehensive public talking about public demands belongs to all Iraqis and partnership in political action through constructive criticism to assess the political experience which is positive it can be a later significant current and reliable. "

Promote democratic reforms construction

The spokesman for the al-Abadi Saad al-Hadithi Office, that "Iraq m going through the experience of an enhanced democratic building are reforms that are diagnosed with what has been accomplished in 12 years, closer look at cash and try to overcome the drawbacks and mistakes and the search for mechanisms through which the modern Iraqi state consolidation of democracy concepts devote experience the principles of democratic action. "

He pointed out that "ingrate in the midst of this experience and strives to create a tradition of work well-established in this direction, there are some errors and cons have to be overcome and this is happening in the system shifted from position to another position, surely gaps occur errors and cons, but the democratic system philosophy occur the most prominent feature of the positive, because the government is able to repair itself from the inside, there are mechanisms for reform and there are ways within the political system to democratic reform and overcome the mistakes and calendar system. "

Democracy-building and accumulation

Sabri pointed out that "democracy building and the accumulation and traditions of work and culture, and the important part that there is a belief in the philosophy of democracy then must devote culture and traditions of Democratic Action," explaining that "culture is essential for citizens to democratic exercise and gets his rights and instructs its bounty with respect to convictions political forces and options electoral and being a partner in the political work contributes to the correction and evaluation of things, and its ability to participate in political life, and this could bring an important base for democracy, that the citizen has awareness mature interact positively with everything around him, including politics, to be a factor not guided. "

He added that "part of the culture of the community charge, when what was the environment and the culture of this community conscious and mature and have the tools and the political decision and action will be in charge at the level of responsibility and be able to be a part of the political system and part of an active and positive, and the succession when there is a decline in political awareness to make sure this will reflect on the decisions and positions. "

He continued that "democracy is not a process Wookey decision but is a process of cumulative building from the bottom up, and this takes time, experience such as the Iraq experience, must pass the errors, and talked a lot of gaps but the result there is a possibility to walk in this and Iraq put his feet on the rail and is supposed to There have matured from the democratic experiment and unknown to a more rational with the passage of time. "

Rule revolving around money and power minority

Can not say that Iraq today is a democratic country, the misery that is in it, and the size of banditry in the political process can be returned to other rule systems, in other words, Iraq after being convicted of the oligarchy authority Mtvhamh, this means the rule revolving around the minority with money and power, turned into a Oolegarchiat competing with each other for power and public space and corrupt government contracts .. All this to ensure the delivery of the political process in the country closed to the horizon, so the journalist Omar Alajafal comment on political action in Iraq.

He Alajafal, that "democracy as a concept believes in social justice and active participation in political decision-making for the political process, here to attend the question about the fate of the regime in Iraq after the rule became minority monopoly money without offering minimum services? What is the form of his transformation? Answer Ghadeer He became "Kalptoukrati" Kleptocraty- thieves rule - which accumulates money on account of society, one of the worst systems that can be produced by any system, was autocratic or democratic. "

The parties and the media and civil society organizations

Civil rights activist Haidar al-Zubaidi confirms that "there are community organizations, civil specialized promotion of democracy, now that there are many tools play a role in building the political life of the first of those organizations, intellectuals and political parties that are considered essential to build a real system kernel if there is a serious will, as well as the media and the curriculum educational, "noting that" these fundamental pillars of maturation and democracy-building experience. "

He added that "the government posed by the political parties, which are involved in democracy through what is published by political awareness and the mechanism of interaction with the public via the media professional exudes awareness, this is but do you applied real, partisan accounts may be overcome it and become a political act than a year to party , an act contrary to the foundations of the democratic experiment if there is a problem and there to handle the processing mechanisms and responsibility lies on everyone. "

Majority Government

National Alliance MP Abdul Hadi al-Saadawi confirms that, the political majority government rectify the situation in Iraq and establish a democratic, pluralistic system.

He said Saadawi "The democratic experiment in a semi-successful in the Arab world, the constitution within political pluralism according to a federal decentralized system, and this demonstrates that Iraq is definitely long way from becoming a democratic environment," noting that "democracy must be put her limitations so as not to be were open to the fullest and not turn into a grim dictatorship run by people and parties dominate the power, there are a lot of negatives need to be corrected, and this needs to be a very long time. "

He added that "democratic situation needs to be a policy address and be majority stakeholder and other blocks opposition not for miscarriage, but opposition to the calendar, diagnose and correct errors blocks," noting that "in the light of the quota system and the dominance of the parties in this way, there is no democracy, we need a majority in parliament form the government and deal with bears Each hand of the state. "

He explained that "the Constitution and the laws that proceeded through democratic privilege of the problem, but the problem is who rode on the basis of democratic participation and the quota system."

A government of technocrats

He called Saadawi prime minister to "the formation of far-government for the quota system is to be responsible to the Parliament not be the prime minister can not minister Accounting nor the powers to him, but the library," noting that "in front of al-Abadi opportunity to correct the situation through the authorization of reference, he should call to form a government of "technocrats" far from the political orientations to embarrass the Parliament to vote on it, and that he did not vote to go to the people and announce the rejection of the political blocs and the parliament for the reforms. "

And increased Saadawi, that "change in Iraq came outside by the civil governor in Iraq," Paul Bremer "is one of the foundations of the system of quotas became ministries represent parties, the minister represents his party will not look at people through the same glasses, tends to his bloc that put him in office."

External assisted planning to provide internal kegs of corruption

Civil rights activist Mohammed Dry says he "did not form a democracy in Iraq referred stigmatized them, there are circumstances accompanied the Iraqi experience, made her suffer from a great many obstacles, and contributed to the slow movement and maturity," noting that "trial and faced tough obstacles, including financial situation and the drop in oil prices the recent period and terrorism, as well as the recent experience of the layer Her political action, institution-building and start from scratch, was the preoccupation with the security aspect in general of the most important obstacles for the progress of the democratic experiment in Iraq. "

He added that "there is an external planning with the help of figures and blocks and parties at home helped to provide kegs of corruption, but the move Ptndaj experience is considered the best for Iraq, and democracy is the option."

Change due to external

Said political analyst Mohammed al-Faisal, said that "democratization slow in the new Iraq, which came unexpectedly unplanned or thoughtful, without a real building of the rules and principles to take root in the community to shift from the practice of arbitrary imposed a genuine belief in democracy and all its duties, Iraq is still a democratic crisis live because of thorny history, for a long period of dictatorship under the authority of the owner deterioration in the social, economic and cultural life. "

He added, "After the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 phase of Iraq's transition from dictatorial one-party system to a multi-party system, and narrow-mindedness applied to excessive openness, that openness came to parties devoid Iraqi political vision of the post-dictatorship, because of the weakness of political maturity to tack parties, and not to and intellectual clarity in regulations and internal configurations, making the country live in a state of political chaos and confusion. "

Sees are interested in democracy because it means a form of government all eligible citizens participate on an equal footing - either directly or through their elected representatives - in the proposal, and the development, and the introduction of laws, which include social, economic and cultural conditions that enable citizens to free exercise and equal to self-determination political.

The term democracy and called on the sometimes narrow sense, to describe the system of government in a democratic state, or in a broader sense to describe the culture of society.

And democracy in this broader sense, is a privileged social system believes in him and walks of society and it refers to certain political and moral culture that reflects the concepts related to the need for a peaceful transfer of power and periodically.


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