********* Abadi pulls stabbed Maliki on decentralization law .. after a delay of 18 months in its implementation

30/12/2014 19:10



BAGHDAD / long-Presse

The Cabinet decided on Tuesday to withdraw amendments to the provincial government challenged the law, calling the Supreme Coordinating Committee for Provincial Affairs to re-examine the amendment within thirty days, in what could be one of several of the most important requirements of the administrative reform since the fall of the former regime in 2003.

The decision means the Government of Haider al-Abadi withdraw the appeal filed by Nuri al-Maliki, who was refusing to grant powers to the decentralization of the provinces, and the effects of his anger while enabling opponents to pass revolutionary changes in the management system, the parliament summer 2013, but the legislation has remained frozen since then because of the appeal was not resolved by Federal Court and dragging Abadi Tuesday.

And committed Abadi since taking office nearly three months ago with the support of decentralization and counted part of the paths of reform, also announced his support for this approach in the administration during an important meeting in Basra Monday, attended by representatives of 14 provinces, to discuss the dispute over powers between the center and the periphery, at the time the most prominent of protests rise Basra, which is experiencing a wave of overwhelming support for the establishment of the province along the lines of Kurdistan.

He pledged Abadi, presided over the meeting of the upper body was in the provinces of Basra, the withdrawal of the appeal of this law and to begin the transfer of powers of the number of ministries to local governments procedures.

The text of the Iraqi constitution headquarters in 2005 that the administration system in Iraq a decentralized, but the governments of Nuri al-Maliki has ignored this for almost a decade, and refused to negotiate seriously with the conservatives, who demanded extra powers as well as about 5 to ignore requests for the establishment of provinces.

A statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister, received a (long-Presse) a copy of it yesterday, "The Council decided during its last 16, which was held today under the chairmanship of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi withdraw the appeal Amendment Act governorates not organized Act province No. (21) for the year 2008 before the Federal Court. "

He called on the Council, the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the Legal Department to "take steps to withdraw the appeal proceedings, the Supreme Coordinating Committee for Provincial Affairs within 30 days to re-examine the Amendment Act and propose the necessary adjustments to achieve harmony and smooth flow of work between the central government and local authorities according to the principles of the Constitution."

The prime minister Haider al-Abadi in a speech, said on the sidelines of chairing the meeting of the upper body was to coordinate between the governorates not organized province, which was held on Monday, "The government will back the transfer of powers to the provinces in order to move the country on the right path," stressing "the need for controls Administration adhered to by everyone for the national interest and the citizens who have to deal with him, regardless of affiliation. "

Abadi said that "the establishment of a constitutional right of the regions can not be a stand against him or prevented from raising," adding, "but you must open the debate on a number of things, including what the timing and the extent of the need and the number of provinces and other things." He stressed "the need for a fair distribution of wealth and not a monopoly when the province without the other."

Article 45 of the Second Amendment to the Law governorates not organized in the territory, which is voted by parliament in June 2013, that the law "establishes the board called (upper body was to coordinate between the provinces), headed by the Prime Minister, and the membership of ministers (of Municipalities and Public Works, and Construction and Housing , labor and social affairs, education, health, planning, agriculture, finance, sports and youth) and Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, governors and heads of provincial councils. "

Article same as stating that "holds the body was transferred sub-districts and devices, jobs and services and disciplines practiced by those ministries with allocated public budget and staff and personnel allocations, to the provinces within the scope of its functions set out in the Constitution and relevant laws gradually and remains the role of ministries in the planning of public policy." .

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