The Iraqi President acknowledges the failure of the system of government since 2003

by **claud39** Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:08 pm

[size=30]The Iraqi President acknowledges the failure of the system of government since 2003[/size]

He called for a new political contract and a departure from the axes policy on the eve of the first anniversary of the airport incident

January 01 2021

The Iraqi President acknowledges the failure of the system of government since 2003 1609425144447958300

The Iraqi President acknowledges the failure of the system of government since 2003 1609425144447958300

Baghdad: «Middle East»

Iraqi President Barham Salih called for Iraq to be removed from the policy of international axes and trenches, while he confirmed the failure of the system of government after 2003. It is the first official endorsement from the highest hierarchy of power in the country, 17 years after the current political class took over the rule of the country.

At a time when tensions are increasing between Washington and Tehran on the eve of the first anniversary of the killing of the commander of the "Quds Force" in the Iranian "Revolutionary Guard", General Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head of the "Popular Mobilization", Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, on January 3, 2021.

Saleh stressed in a speech on the occasion of the start of the new year that “Iraqis deserve more than they are now, in a country that God has blessed with good deeds and a geopolitical position that enables it to be a meeting point for regional and international interests, and to be a point of contact and balance between peoples and states, and this will not be achieved from Without removing Iraq from the policy of international axes and trenches, and for Iraq to play an active role in establishing peace and security in the region.

Saleh acknowledged the cracking of the system of government after 2003, saying that “the successive crises and challenges confirm the size and truth of the structural defect in the existing system and the way of governance, and that the historical and national responsibility requires serious work to end the cycle of crises afflicting our country,” warning that “we must acknowledge that That the system of governance that was established after 2003 has been subjected to a major crack, and it cannot serve the citizen who has become deprived of his most important legitimate rights.

And Saleh said that we "urgently need a new political contract that establishes a capable, capable and fully sovereign state."

Regarding the political conflicts that Iraq is going through, Salih stressed that “it is not possible for the Iraqi citizen to bear the tax of political conflicts, failures and corruption, to the point of manipulating his daily power,” explaining that “this calls for new reviews and reform decisions based on frankness, and based on a basic principle in Failure to involve citizens in political conflicts, as the citizens ’food and salaries of employees in Iraq, including also in the Kurdistan region, cannot be linked to political conflicts and the scourge of corruption».

Saleh called for the importance of "priority in supporting the poor classes through a package of effective and fast measures, and the continuation of the war on corruption and the corrupt, as there is no room for favoritism and courtesy at the expense of the country's sovereignty, imposing law, consolidating the state’s reference and confining weapons to its hand."

Regarding the controversial government reform paper, Saleh said: “In the new year, fateful entitlements await us, which are the completion of the reform project by preparing for early, fair and fair elections, which guarantee the Iraqi voter's right to choose away from manipulation, fraud, pressure and stealing votes.”

In this context, Dr. Ihssan al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking in Iraq, told Asharq Al-Awsat, “What President Saleh talked about represents an accurate and realistic reading of the nature of the political crisis in Iraq, which is a crisis of a system, a crisis of a political class, and a people's crisis towards the political class. ».

Al-Shammari added that «Iraq is living a moment of disruption and lack of confidence on the part of the people towards the political class as the political process collapsed from my point of view, and therefore the move towards a new political contract represents the first steps of reform, especially since the nature of the accumulations of 17 years is enough to go towards concessions from To implement this order, leading to new minds and political figures that lay the correct foundations for a sober political system, and not to be hostage to the outside.

Al-Shammari explained that "what President Saleh dealt with is consistent with the demands of the October 1 revolution, which are the demands of the Iraqi people, with my conviction that the minds that produced ruin will not produce solutions."

Regarding President Saleh’s call to exclude Iraq from the policy of the axes, Al-Shammari says, “This represents the line of embarking on Iraq not to be an arena for settling scores, and therefore it is a message to the interior and the outside, to respect Iraqi sovereignty, especially since the tension between America and Iran is burdening Iraq, and that There are certain forces trying to make Iraq part of this conflict ».

In addition, on the eve of escalating tension between Iran and the United States on the occasion of the anniversary of the airport incident, Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance, called for a demonstration on the anniversary of the Airport Street incident early next year. Al-Amiri said, during a memorial ceremony on the anniversary of the assassination of the engineer and Soleimani, in the Muqdadiya district of Diyala, that “everyone should participate extensively and actively in the demonstrations of next January 3, in loyalty to the blood of the engineer and Soleimani,” indicating that “it will determine the fate of Iraq.” He added that «after the events of October 1, 2019, Iraq went through a major crisis, and this crisis was aimed at making Iraq go towards complete chaos, and its goal was to divide Iraq.

He explained that "the planner for this chaos wanted there to be a Shiite - Shiite fighting", pointing out that "the children of the Islamic movement and the Islamic political factions and blocs had full awareness and were not drawn in this direction." In addition, the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi Parliament ruled out a recurrence of the storming of the US embassy in late 2019.

Committee member Abdul Khaleq Al-Azzawi said in a statement yesterday (Thursday), that “it is not expected that the scenario of storming the US embassy will be repeated, because the case is a letter that has arrived. For the international community and the Americans ». He pointed out that "international protocols place the protection of embassies on the shoulders of the Iraqi government, and that the factions understand this issue."

In addition, and in a remarkable development, the US military base in Victoria launched an air defense system, in conjunction with tight security measures in the vicinity of the Green Zone and the airport, for fear that Shiite factions loyal to Iran launched retaliatory attacks on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Baghdad airport incident. According to an Iraqi security source, the new system is similar to the one in the US embassy. Washington accuses the Iraqi armed factions of being behind the missile attacks on the embassy and Iraqi military bases hosting American soldiers.

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