Al-Hadithi: A noticeable change will be witnessed by the citizen at the level of services soon

25/7/2018 12:00 am

 Launch of annual financial allocations for service sectors
Baghdad / Sabah / conscious / Muhannad Abdul Wahab


A spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, Saad al-Hadithi, that the citizen will witness a marked change in the level of services during the next few years, and stressed that the Prime Minister and the federal government are keen to avoid all outlets of corruption, and while the Prime Minister approved the launch of 7,000 degrees of functional province of Qar, the President of the Council of Salah al-Din Ahmed Karim said that the local government prevented the demonstration for fear of disturbances and exploitation of the «da'ash» as happened earlier, while referring to the lifting of demands to the Prime Minister.


This comes at a time when the coalition led by the Sadrists led by the Sadrist movement, Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr, the federal government and local governments to accelerate the demands of legitimate demonstrators, warning at the same time demonstrators resort to violence in popular protests, while counting the legal expert, Tariq Harb , The Basra Provincial Council requested the establishment of the region «illegal» because the provincial councils have finished its work.


Government Spokesman


Al-Hadithi told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The presence of the Central Crisis Cell headed by the Prime Minister and the immediate and continuous operation of its work with the presence of sub-committees in the ministries and local governments in the governorates and the continuous holding of many of the complexities that were hindering the response Quick response to the demands of the demonstrators to provide a better service reality ».


Al-Hadithi added that "the prime minister and the central government are keen to prevent all outlets of corruption," adding that "the government's work now focused on providing services and optimal use of available resources."


Al-Hadithi stressed that «the citizen will see in the coming days a remarkable change is growing and rising continuously in terms of the reality of services in the electricity sector and all other sectors».


In the same context, the governor of Dhi Qar, Yahya Naciri, said in a statement received by «morning», that «the local government obtained the approval of the Prime Minister to launch appointments to the owners of the departments of the province of seven thousand degrees and functional», indicating that «was approached by the Ministry of Finance to provide Financial cover for those grades ».


"We are waiting for the financial cover to be provided by the Ministry of Finance for these grades next week," he said. "The crisis cell continues its daily meetings and has members in Baghdad who follow the implementation of the governorate's demands with the ministries and concerned parties."


Naciri said that «career grades are among the demands raised by the province to the Prime Minister during a meeting with elders and dignitaries Dhi Qar».


In a related context, the Ministry of Finance announced the launch of financial allocations for the annual service sectors.


A member of the Central Crisis Cell, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance Maher Hammad told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) on Tuesday: "The improvement of crude oil prices and the rise of the proportion of the calculation in the federal budget of $ 46 per barrel to $ 68, enabled the Ministry of Finance to launch allocations Annual financial for the service sectors as well as seeking to achieve the basic requirements of the provinces and demonstrators demanding services and to carry out a broader financial work within the new financial budget "
Hammad said that "the ministry has launched allocations of ministries of housing, reconstruction, municipal health, education, water resources and electricity almost full of all annual allocations"


Government action


In turn, the President of the Council of Salahaddin province, Ahmed Karim, said in a press statement that «the province did not witness a protest in the streets, but we received the demands through a committee of dignitaries and was submitted to the Prime Minister's Office to decide on», adding that «we are waiting for the necessary procedures to provide Services for residents of the province ».


"The province does not favor the exit of demonstrations and confusion of the situation because of what happened earlier and to prevent the occurrence of internal disturbances or a security gap exploited by the organization (Da'ash) criminal, and therefore we raised demands to Baghdad to develop quick fixes.


For his part, Governor of Muthanna, Faleh al-Ziadi, said that the decisions issued after the meeting of the provincial delegation with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will be implemented through realistic measures, indicating that the meeting with the Ministry of Planning and the concerned ministries and the head of the government crisis cell came to put mechanisms for implementing these decisions.


Al-Zayadi said during the workshop on setting up mechanisms to implement the directives of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on meeting the demands of the provinces. Al-Sabah said that the meeting discussed the mechanisms of implementing the decisions of the Council of Ministers on the ground either by increasing the allocation or by providing financial liquidity.



Implement decisions to restore confidence between the citizen and the official ».


For her part, the director of the results unit in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, representative of the Secretariat of the crisis cell service and security, Bushra Shair, said that the meeting held on Monday with the Ministry of Planning and the ministries concerned were on the instructions of the Prime Minister to achieve the demands of the demonstrators.


Sheir told Al-Sabah that the unconventional meeting was attended by the representatives of Basra, Dhi Qar, Najaf, Al-Ashraf and Muthanna governorates, as well as sectoral bodies to find out the obstacle to achieving these projects and to reach concrete and real results on the ground.


She pointed out that the crisis cell is working to achieve the demands of the demonstrators through coordination with the relevant ministries in the service sectors and under the direct supervision of the government.




Province of Basra


The legal expert, Tariq Harb, said in a press statement that «the Basra Provincial Council requested the establishment of the province is illegal because the provincial councils ended its work since June 2017 and does not entail any decision issued by a legal impact», noting that «the work of provincial councils Has been working for four years as its work began in 2013 and ended in 2017 ».


This came in response to a press statement to the President of the Basra Provincial Council, the agency, Walid Kitan, on Tuesday, which announced that the Basra Provincial Council collected the signatures of 15 of its members in order to establish a province in Basra, and send this request to Baghdad to take its legal and constitutional procedures, To the referendum of the people of the province in that, according to media reports.


"The Constitution stipulates that one-third of the members of the provincial council will submit a request for the establishment of the province, which means the collection of 12 signatures in Basra, but we have collected more than that number, which means that we have made the most important step in this file, the position of the local government .


 Kitan said that the Council will raise the request to the Council of Ministers, and after 15 days will raise the latter request to the Electoral Commission in preparation for a date for a referendum within 3 months, and the local government until that time to prepare the referendum, he said.


For his part, the head of the provincial council of Babel Raad Hamza Alwan Jubouri, the central government is serious in the implementation of a number of important projects in the province of Babylon.


Jubouri said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA): «There are 3 large water projects reached the completion rate to 90 percent and use potable water for the next twenty years».


And Jubouri, that «the province has good functional grades in all specialties, noting the availability of 2000 degrees of employment in the education sector, and there are many grades in other sectors».


He explained that «the problem of electricity was partially addressed in the province, which will be reflected positively in the coming days».


Adoption of legal controls


In the meantime, the head of the alliance of the well-known Hassan Aqoli, in a statement, the need to adopt the legal and constitutional controls by the security forces in dealing with demonstrators.


He added: "The legitimate demands made by the demonstrators, mostly young people, to obtain basic services for the daily life of the citizen, primarily water and electricity, and to provide jobs for millions of unemployed, including graduates of institutes and colleges with university degrees, and accounting corrupt and fight networks, The different country, came as an expression of the depth of the suffering of a wide range of our people, especially in the southern provinces rich in resources and wealth, but poor services and the deterioration of the conditions of their children.


He said that the demonstrations reflected mainly popular anger at the failure of successive governments, both federal and local, to meet the basic needs of decent living, and the growing gap in mistrust between citizens and political institutions and government, especially among young people, With the public movement calling for fighting corruption and achieving real reforms, and is keen to ensure the embodiment of its national reform project on the ground.


He stressed the support of the coalition fully the demands of citizens expressed in peaceful ways in accordance with the constitution guaranteeing the right to express views by peaceful means and non-resort to violence, calling on demonstrators to be vigilant and cautious about attempts to push the demonstrations to abandon their peaceful.


Al-Akouli pointed out that the demonstrations confirm the message previously sent by citizens to refrain from participating in the elections and not to renew the election of many symbols and political leaders to leave the approach of quotas and resolute fight against corruption and achieve radical reforms. This message must be present in the efforts to form the bloc


For the larger and in the next government program. The Federal Government and local governments must listen to the demands of the demonstrators and expedite the realization of the legitimate demands, especially the urgent ones, and take the necessary and urgent measures to meet them.




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