The inclusion of more than 100 candidates for de-Baathification, including governors and former mili

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[size=52]The inclusion of more than 100 candidates for de-Baathification, including governors and former military personnel[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]At a time when he was awaiting the end of the de-Baathification file, documents were leaked that included more than 100 candidates for the upcoming local elections in the procedures of the Accountability and Justice Commission. The documents included the inclusion of two governors, along with candidates on Sunni and Shiite lists, including those from the Dawa Party and from Asaib. Most of those included ran for office in previous elections or were high-ranking employees and military officers.[/size]
[size=45]The Commission had confirmed a few days ago that none of the candidates would be included in accountability and justice procedures.[/size]
[size=45]More than 6,000 candidates are expected to participate in the local elections that will be held before the end of this year.[/size]
[size=45]In each election, the Commission sends lists of candidates to 4 bodies: Education (verifying certificates), Interior (security situation), Integrity, and Accountability and Justice.[/size]
[size=45]A Sunni leader said in an interview with Al-Mada, requesting that his name not be mentioned, that in the understandings that preceded this government, there was an agreement to solve the problem of the de-Baathification file by “transferring it to the judiciary.”[/size]
[size=45]Through the agreement, the Sunni forces aspired to close the case before the local elections. “This is because the file is being used as a punishment whip against competitors,” according to the Sunni leader.[/size]
[size=45]But what happened was that the Accountability and Justice Commission, perhaps with the support of parties in the coordination framework, refused to hand over the files to the judiciary. It was assumed that all of the Authority’s belongings would be delivered at least 8 months ago, according to what was later proven in what is known as the Political Agreement Paper.[/size]
[size=45]At the end of last year, documents were leaked about the government’s request from the Commission - based on the ministerial curriculum based on the political agreement - for the latter to submit a report on the numbers of those included in the Commission’s procedures within a month of the formation of the government.[/size]
[size=45]According to the letter sent from the Prime Minister’s Office to the Commission, the latter must submit the names of those included, including “members of the divisions (of the Baath Party) and above, the active member who has enriched himself at the expense of public funds by a final judicial decision, and members of the repressive apparatus.”[/size]
[size=45]But Bassem Al-Badri, head of the Commission, and according to what he stated at the time to (Al-Mada), “The Commission exists according to a law and will not be canceled or its files handed over to any party without a new law enacted in Parliament.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Badri confirmed at the time that the Commission was continuing to work, and estimated the number of Iraqis covered by the procedures at about one million individuals.[/size]
[size=45]During the last elections, the Commission decided to expel about 1,400 candidates from the 2005 to 2021 elections, the most of which was in 2010, when 511 candidates were expelled. The Commission’s continued issuance of those subject to the procedures may be explained as a result of the latter’s receipt of new papers and information about “Baathists.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Badri says that from 2014 to the end of 2022, the authority entered more than 7 million documents, and there are other significant numbers awaiting the entry process.[/size]
[size=45]The Sunni forces, which are the parties in Iraq that appear to be the most targeted by the de-Baathification measures, have tried several times to refer this file to the judiciary, and considered the delay in deciding the names of those included to be political and punitive motives behind it.[/size]
[size=45]In 2016, a political agreement was reached between what was known as the “National Alliance” - which is the political umbrella for the Shiite forces - and the Sunni parties to legislate a law called “Accountability and Banning of the Dissolved Baath Party.”[/size]
[size=45]The new law included 22 articles after the “Baath ban” was lifted, provided that the latter was presented with a law on its own.[/size]
[size=45]In the end, the Sunnis voted, in agreement with the Shiites, on the Baath ban law in 2016, while the other law has not been legislated yet.[/size]
[size=45]In February 2015, 6 Sunni ministers had refused to pass amendments to the Eradication Law within the Council of Ministers, due to fears that it would turn into a “trap” to punish all opponents of the government on charges of belonging to the Baath Party. The Alliance of Forces - the political umbrella of the Sunnis - hoped that the (Accountability and Justice) Law would be completely repealed, and that it would be transferred to a judicial file, and that an annex would not be placed in the law stipulating that the Baath Party would be banned “without clear controls.”[/size]
[size=45]The final draft of the Accountability Law stipulated replacing the current Accountability and Justice Authority, formed in accordance with Law No. 10 of 2008, with another bearing the same name in accordance with a new law, and transferring with it all previous rights and obligations and former employees as well.[/size]
[size=45]In the last list of candidates included in the provincial council elections, 40 were excluded and 85 others were summoned. Among those excluded is the current governor of Nineveh and head of the Nineveh Electoral List, Najm al-Jubouri. Al-Jubouri was the commander of the operations to liberate Nineveh in 2016, before he was assigned to administer the governorate in 2019.[/size]
[size=45]The governor of Salah al-Din, Ismail al-Haloub, was also included, and he has been in office since last year, and before that he was a member of the provincial council and deputy governor.[/size]
[size=45]Among the most prominent people included in the new eradication is the candidate from Baghdad, Al-Murtaj Al-Kaabi, from the Dawa Party, Tanzim Al-Inside (led by Abdul Karim Al-Anzi).[/size]
[size=45]The candidate for Babylon is Khazal Al-Awadi, from the State of Law coalition led by Nouri al-Maliki.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Awadi is a former member of the Hilla District Council (the center of Babil Governorate).[/size]
[size=45]In addition to Haider Al-Sabiri, an employee and candidate for Babylon on the Diyala Merit List, which includes two movements: Al-Hikma, led by Ammar Al-Hakim, and Al-Asa’ib, led by Qais Al-Khazali.[/size]
[size=45]Among the employee candidates included in the procedures is Hassan Hadi Al-Jubouri from Baghdad, who is the director of the examinations department at the Shiite Endowment Office, and a former candidate in the 2021 elections whose name appeared on the ballot lists.[/size]
[size=45]Hakim al-Jubouri, an employee and candidate for Babylon within the Iraqi Al-Basas coalition led by Mohsen al-Mandalawi, deputy speaker of parliament and a leader in the coordination framework.[/size]
[size=45]There are also former military candidates who were included in the eradication, such as Lieutenant General Ismail Muhammad Al-Tamimi from Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]The candidate is Major General Turhan Abdul Rahman, for the Turkmen Front in Kirkuk.[/size]
[size=45]Along with Amir al-Jubouri, he is from the Leadership Alliance headed by Planning Minister Muhammad Tamim, and it is one of the lists affiliated with Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi.[/size]
[size=45]And Auras Al-Salman, a candidate for Anbar within the Sovereignty Party headed by Khamis Al-Khanjar.[/size]
[size=45]Iyad Al-Marawi from the United Anbar Alliance, headed by former Minister of Electricity Qasim Al-Fahdawi.[/size]
[size=45]And Hatem al-Karim, the candidate for Salah al-Din within the Taqaddum coalition led by the Speaker of Parliament.[/size]
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