Suggestions for the replacement of more than 150 general managers and confusion in the shares of the

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[size=52]Suggestions for the replacement of more than 150 general managers and confusion in the shares of the Sadrists[/size]

[size=45]More than 5,000 managers in the country, whose salaries amount to 400 billion dinars annually[/size]
[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The government dismissed and replaced the positions of about 60 general managers as a first meal, while the final number is likely to reach twice what was announced.[/size]
[size=45]It is expected that these changes will raise objections from political parties because of the mechanism for replacing officials, which depends on the replacement being from the same party that controls the ministry or government institution.
It is also likely that confusion will occur in the ministries and agencies that were affiliated with ministers and officials from the Sadrist movement, which withdrew from the political process last summer.
On the other hand, the official narration says that the process of change relied on specialized committees of academics, in addition to employees from the prime minister's office.
The managers' evaluation process included more than 400 managers in ministries only, while more than 80 others are still not finished with their evaluation process.
According to the 2023 budget, which is now being discussed by Parliament, the number of employees in the general manager category reaches more than 5,000 employees, and their salaries are about 400 billion dinars annually.
According to political sources who spoke to Al-Mada, "the process of replacing general managers will be in accordance with the quota policy followed in the distribution of ministers."
And the sources continue: “The replaced general manager will be from the same party that controls the ministry or government body (in the current government), which may raise objections by targeting a political party over another.”
The most complex problem, according to the sources, is that "the ministries that were within the share of the Sadrist movement in previous governments and still include cadres from the movement."
Al-Mada has previously learned from Shiite circles that the process of replacing what is known as “special grades” will involve “an expansion of the share of the parties that have left the political process,” in reference to the Sadrist movement.
According to the claim of some Shiite parties, the Sadrist movement had controlled 60% of those degrees during the previous governments of Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Mustafa Al-Kazemi.
Thus, the movement had displaced the State of Law, led by Nuri al-Maliki, from the hierarchy of important jobs, of which more than 70% were held during the first and second terms of the al-Maliki government (from 2006-2014), but then it retreated to 30%.
According to what the official agency quoted from a government source whose name was not revealed, it confirmed that Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani directed that the replacements for the dismissed general managers be “from among the cadres working within the ministry.”
The source explained that "the number of general managers who were dismissed is 57, between Asala and Agency," while leaks indicated that 30 of them were originally in their positions.
In order to avoid the dismissal of those originally appointed who did not obtain a positive evaluation, the government decided to transfer the director to a lower level than the one he occupied before his appointment as general manager, according to the government source.
A leader in one of the coordination framework parties expects, in an interview with Al-Mada, that "the final target number of directors who will be dismissed or change their positions will reach more than 150 general managers."
The leader, who asked not to be named, said that some of the names of the replaced managers were "involved in the case of theft of the century, while others have known corruption files."
The leader denied the existence of "political targeting" from these changes, while it was likely that the expected ministerial changes would reach about half of the cabinet.
Among the most prominent ministers expected to be included in the change are the Minister of Labor, Ahmed al-Asadi, leader of the Jund al-Imam faction, and Naim al-Aboudi, the Minister of Education, the leadership of the "Asa'ib", whose leader, Qais Khazali, has been on the US sanctions list for years.
The leader of the Shiite party also reveals the possibility of replacing the Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul-Ghani, and the Minister of Youth, Ahmed Al-Mubarqa, who are ministers belonging to Maliki's coalition, which denied a few days ago the existence of a government reshuffle.
As for the two ministries that have the most negative evaluations, according to the leader, they are the ministries of agriculture and water resources, while it is expected that the Minister of Commerce will also be included in the change.
Al-Sudani had given the ministers 6 months for evaluation, and 3 months for general directors, and he said in a televised interview that it was proven that the position amendment had been carried out in the "political agreement paper."
In turn, the government spokesman, on behalf of Al-Awadi, said that there are two teams that supervised the process of evaluating the general managers.
Al-Awadi revealed in an interview with state television that the first team was headed by the director of the Sudanese office, and the membership of the Ministry of Planning, the Integrity Commission, the Financial Supervision Bureau, and the prime minister's advisors.
As for the second team, which was responsible for sending and sorting the evaluation forms that were sent to 4 parties, including the directors, it consisted of 12 academics and 12 other technical staff.
And Al-Awadi stressed that «the evaluation form that was sent to the directors included 79 questions that require answering them by sending documents proving their authenticity».
And the government spokesman stated that the second party received "150 thousand documents from the managers, at a rate of 500 sheets from each director."
And Al-Awadi indicated that the process of evaluating managers in ministries only included "439 general managers in 23 ministries", of which 322 directors in 19 ministries were evaluated, and 82 others remain.
On the other hand, the items of the 2023 budget, which have not been enacted so far, confirmed that the number of employees in grade (B), which includes general managers and those with their rank, is 5407 employees.
According to a post by economics professor in Basra, Nabil Al-Marsoumi, on Facebook, the annual salaries for category (B) of special grades amount to “389 billion dinars.”
He added in the post that "due to the lack of detail in the budget for the salaries of special grades, the salaries of (class B) were estimated at 6 million dinars per month for each employee."
In addition, Hadi al-Salami, an independent deputy, questioned the prime minister's ability to bypass the quota system in the process of changing recent positions.
Al-Salami said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that “the prime minister himself came according to the quota equation, and there can be no change without quotas.”
The deputy criticized previous changes by Al-Sudani that took place during the period of canceling the administrative orders of the previous Al-Kazemi government (the caretaker government), and said that the prime minister at the time “reassigned corrupt officials who have files in integrity to the same previous jobs.”
In any case, Al-Salami says: “We will wait for the issuance of the administrative orders and the names of the officials involved in the change, in order to assess whether what happened was a quota or a professional act.”[/size]
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