Five serious challenges facing Iraq in 2018

Five serious challenges facing Iraq in 2018



Monday, January 1 2018

Alsumaria News / Baghdad
, said the Middle East newspaper, on Monday, that there are five serious challenges facing Iraq in 2018, indicating that the most prominent of these challenges is the relationship between Baghdad and Arbil , and the elimination of corruption.

"Iraqis at the highest level of power or ordinary citizens know that this year's victory in the war on terror does not diminish the importance of other challenges that the country and its government must address," the newspaper said in a report. In 2018 and subsequent years, as some of those challenges may be due to the first years of the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, and some of them linked to the years that followed, and others created by the circumstances of the war on a preacher.

She added that "most Iraqis agree that the most important that awaits Iraq 's overall challenge, and the government in particular in the new year, is the issue of corruption , which has been associated with the state and its institutions since the early days of 2003 , " adding to that "there are those who believe that this file already that date And began with the years of international blockade that followed the invasion of Iraq to Kuwait in the nineties of the last century.

"The other issue is the tense relationship between Baghdad and Erbil against the backdrop of the referendum on Kurdish independence last September, as one of the most important challenges that require radical treatments to solve," he said, pointing out that "there is the challenge of reconstruction of the provinces destroyed by the war, The financial crisis experienced by the country, and talk about a deficit in the budget for the year 2018 estimated at 13 trillion Iraqi dinars.

"The Iraqi government, which is only five months after the end of its mandate, faces the challenge of holding local and public elections in mid-May, amid opposition from Sunni political parties and blocs on the pretext of the return of large numbers of displaced people to their homes and the destruction of infrastructure in the provinces occupied by" .

"Some believe that the disarmament process is one of the biggest challenges facing the country, because of its alarming spread, in all parts of Iraq."

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to eliminate corruption rampant in the state departments and hold the corrupt, while stressing in (December 30, 2017), that the reconstruction will include all the provinces, because all of them were damaged.

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Corruption will NEVER be eradicated, as long as Maliki is still breathing- You can take that to the bank- I've said this for years, and will stand by it- A blind man could see what his objective is, why not the rest of you? I can't make it any plainer than that, for crissake-