Citizens: The disruption of the provincial council reflected positively on the performance of the ex

[size=52]Citizens: The disruption of the provincial council reflected positively on the performance of the executive authority[/size]

[size=45]Wasit / Jabbar Bechai[/size]
[size=45]Citizens of Wasit Governorate accused the provincial councils of being a “tool” to disrupt the work of the executive authorities and that they were draining huge funds from salaries and petty cash and a huge number of employees and other expenditures. Interfering in administrative, financial and technical affairs.[/size]
[size=45]They demanded that these councils be consultative advisory, comprising an elite group of specialists in various fields with an appropriate number of experienced and specialized, whose role would be to provide advice, guidance and various consultations and not necessarily have a supervisory role because of the presence of several oversight bodies exercising the role and these bodies achieved good success in their work in some files In contrast to the provincial councils, the role of most of its members was provocative and utilitarian.[/size]
[size=45]Retired teacher Yahya al-Atabi says, “The reality confirms that Wasit Governorate is currently witnessing a good work campaign and there are field achievements on the ground in implementing many urban and service projects, especially municipal projects, water, sewage and roads services as well as education. For the first time, these projects are being implemented away from the pressure of the provincial council and municipal councils “. He added that "the law confirmed that the provincial councils are legislative and oversight, whose tasks are to issue legislation that pertains to the governorate and to monitor the performance of the executive authorities. For example, you quickly resort to dismissing him, and sometimes this dismissal is incorrect.”[/size]
[size=45]Civil activist Ahmed Al-Tamimi believes that “the governorate councils are a tool to disrupt the executive work in the governorates, not the other way around. They are utilitarian councils that adopt what goes along with their ambitions and the will of their parties, many of which have legitimized corruption through a series of unfair local decisions, so they had to receive a torrent of accusations and demand their dissolution, as The October Revolution did, which stopped the work of those councils by putting pressure on Parliament, which provided the opportunity for the governors to implement projects, perhaps according to a correct technical and administrative vision.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "This does not mean exempting any executive official from monitoring and follow-up, but rather there must be more precise oversight from Parliament to prevent the political mood from taking over." Pointing out that "directing arrows of accusation to those councils, including the Wasit Council, may not include everyone, as there are those who are patriotic and keen on the public interest and do not work according to the political mood pressing on the governor, even without a real justification for that pressure." He added that "the owners of this description are few in number and therefore have no influence in the council as long as its decisions are subject to voting and quotas."[/size]
[size=45]Ali Al-Shammari, a teacher in one of Kut's schools, confirms that "any fair person today sees Wasit Governorate, specifically the city of Kut, witnessing good work and the implementation of service projects such as rehabilitation and development of some areas that were deprived and suffer from a great lack of services."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The decision today is in the hands of the governors, so I find that they have been liberated from the authority of the provincial and municipal councils that were abolished, and the governor relies on a team of specialists in the province, his deputies, his assistants and heads of administrative units in formulating policies related to the implementation of projects, setting priorities and approving projects in districts and sub-districts according to density standards population and the actual need without taking into account the perspective of imposing this or that project by the provincial council or by an influential member of the council or a party with a large number of council members.” Al-Shammari stresses, “The importance of finding a legal mechanism to organize the work of the councils to be advisory, providing advice, guidance and advice to the technical team in the province, and to be voluntary councils so that the state does not bear high costs that have no real justification for spending.”[/size]
[size=45]For his part, Mr. Mounir Kamer, one of the influential social and educational figures in the Wasit community, says, “In this issue there is a problem that collides with the constitutional right that created these councils and a legal text. .[/size]
[size=45]He added, "I find it very necessary to restructure the provincial councils in terms of the number of their members, the number of their employees and their work mechanisms, as well as the type and size of the powers granted so that they do not constitute an economic burden on the state budget and be a service obstacle to the provinces and a focus of an idle political conflict."[/size]
[size=45]He stated that "the abolition of the provincial councils permanently means the exclusiveness of the executive authorities in the provinces, especially the governors, with local decisions related to the interests of the people of their provinces."[/size]
[size=45]Kamer believes that “the decisions that remain in the hands of the conservatives at the present time, whether they are related to service aspects and the nature of approving projects and other decisions, and holding powers with both hands, does not lose sight of the principle of political and personal mood, which naturally corresponds to the mood and political power that is mostly directed by the parties to which he belongs. Conservatives.[/size]
[size=45]Law (27) of 2019, the Second Amendment Law to the Provincial and District Council Elections Law No. (12) of 2018, was previously issued, which ended the work of the governorate councils that are not organized in the region and the district councils and district councils affiliated with them, and the governor, his two deputies and heads of administrative units continued to exercise the tasks and powers stipulated It is stipulated in Provincial Law No. (21) of 2008.[/size]
[size=45]However, the councils challenged the parliament’s decision before the court and considered it contrary to the law, the constitution and the foundations of democracy in the country. It must be appealed with a campaign of wide criticism due to the bad reputation of the councils and accusations of corruption and bribery and obstruction of the work of the governors and the implementation of construction and reconstruction projects in the governorates due to the conflicts between the parties and political blocs in those councils.[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that the Federal Court announced in early June 2021 that the Second Amendment Law to the Provincial and District Council Elections Law No. 12 of 2018, which ended the continuity of the work of the provincial councils, is consistent with the constitution, but the continuation of the work of the elected councils, whether they were national councils or local bodies after the end of their electoral cycle It represents a violation of the people's right to vote, elect, and run for office, and violates the voter's will.[/size]
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