Senior adviser to al-Maliki criticizes the "disable" the parliament of a bill of economic reform

10/04/2014 13:40



Long-Presse / Baghdad

Criticized the advisers in the Office of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, on Thursday, the House of Representatives a bill to disable economic reform, indicating that the project was a change, if passed, economic map in Iraq and end the "total reliance" on oil.

The head of the body, Thamer Ghadhban said in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "strenuous efforts made by the Iraqi team specialist, and international organizations, to put the main lines of the draft law of economic reform in Iraq to achieve remarkable growth in the coming years, and to revive many of the aspects of productivity deactivated in the industrial and agricultural sectors. "

He Anger, that "the project put two plans for economic reform requires the first shift of economic policy towards the open market, and the translation of the will of the Constitution, which stipulates the need for such an approach," noting that "the second plan recommends the formation of a supreme council for economic reform, takes it upon himself to design policies country's development and productivity, especially after the dispersion clearly witnessed in his economic policies, and caused a decline in growth rates, and lower rates of production, and to retain the oil as the sole source for financing the country's financial budgets. "

The head of the advisers in the Prime Minister's Office, that "the bill also aims to form a number of departments and institutions important in the country, especially the land department, and other tax reform and the banking, insurance and finance, as well as a third relevant to the preparation of legislation and laws to ensure the revitalization of the economic reality in the country." .

The chief adviser to al-Maliki, that "the project after approval by the Council of Ministers, and faced a lot of criticism unwarranted what led to the disabled," and expressed regret that "severe because such laws introduced for political bargaining."

Anger and saw, that it was "better for the House to read the bill the first time at least, or hosting the advisers to clarify what requires inquiry," adding, "but it did not happen."

He continued, senior adviser to al-Maliki, "will lead the bill, if approved, to absorb many of the economic problems that led to the decline in growth rates, and the elimination of unemployment, reduce poverty rates, especially after activating the work of the productive sectors stalled work at the moment, Kalmncat industrial and commercial , as well as revive the agricultural situation, which will require more labor. "

It is noteworthy that Iraq is suffering from the adoption of the economy on oil such as Egypt quasi-single in the light of other productive sectors crashes or stalled.

The prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, confirmed in (15 March 2014), that the dependence on the oil sector and the neglect of other sectors "will cause disorder in the Iraqi economy."

He also warned parliamentarians, economists and oil, in (the 22 of December 2013 the past), of the consequences of Iraq's dependence entirely on oil, and expressed their support for the report by the International Monetary Fund on the performance of the local economy, while confirmed the parliamentary Finance Committee that they had already informed the government repeatedly Similar remarks without having any reaction because the officials' lack of economic visions of the future, "an economist saw that the problem lies in Iraqi funds they" run around irrational. "


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