" US Newspapers: Abadi called reforms package risky to wrest power from the "elders policy"

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" US Newspapers: Abadi called reforms package risky to wrest power from the "elders policy"

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[ltr]" US Newspapers: Abadi called reforms package risky to wrest power from the "elders policy" [/ltr]

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[ltr]In response to the tens of thousands of Iraqis who took to the streets in the capital and other provinces to condemn the rampant corruption and inefficiency and a breakdown of services where the effects of continuing power cuts at a time when the temperature exceeded 50 degrees Celsius outraged Iraqis who accuse corrupt officials of squandering oil wealth of the country, issued a Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Sunday objective orders suppress corruption and reducing government expenditures, in a statement issued by his office canceled Abadi, vice president and positions of his deputies, and called for the abolition of special privileges granted to government agencies, and demanded to exempt senior state officials.
Under the plan Abadi, will fill vacant positions through the Commission choose candidates based on professional competence. The aim of this step is to break the dominance of sectarian favoritism and partisan considerations.
Abadi also exempted the last Wednesday of the Secretary-General of the Council and his ministers as part of an ambitious reform campaign under threat from politicians using their followers militants for political purposes.
Politicians entered on-line and were quick to support Abadi plan for reform which reduced to a large extent protections and officials formed a committee to fight graft in order to address government corruption at all levels.
The al-Maliki - who is accused some analysts of seeking to undermine the government Abadi, but denies it - Sunday expressed support for the steps Abadi said in a statement on their website that "renews its support for the reforms required by the political process." The MP said Mohammed Mayahi that "political parties that oppose the resolutions calling for the reform of the Prime Minister but exercised political suicide, The Iraqi people will not have mercy groups that stand in the way of reforms."
A year after taking office, initiated the largest Abadi campaign reform of the political system since the end of the US occupation, the enactment of risky actions to consolidate his power and wrest power from elders politics who ran Iraq since the fall of Saddam's regime package. Sunday where he announced a radical restructuring of the political system dysfunctional plan after Qtoat fueled electric power protests of Iraqis.
He says one of the reporters "all the people with whom we spoke here want to see the end of corruption, and the restoration of basic services, they want electricity at a time when Iraq is suffering from a heat wave is unprecedented, and they want clean water." Despite the fact that Iraq's second-largest oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - OPEC - it is struggling to provide basic services to its citizens since the US invasion of the country in 2003, it finished 2014 ranked 170 among 175 countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.
And received Abadi reforms package popular support in addition to praise Western governments, also received the full support of the most influential in the country's religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who gave the final green light to reforms Abadi and urged him last Friday sermon to make appointments based on ability and efficiency and not on sectarian or partisan affiliations, and urge him to challenge corruption and be more courageous and daring in his reform program.
Members of Parliament voted unanimously Tuesday to exempt a group of senior officials, and the abolition of sectarian and partisan positions in the State, and re-open the files of corruption and granting Abadi abolition of provincial authority. These bold steps would strip some of the powerful people of their official addresses. The official description of the Information Office of Ebadi on Wednesday his decision to exempt the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers and his aides as "part of a campaign to cancel non-essential government positions."
But in his televised speech last Wednesday predicted Abadi resistance from the beneficiaries of the old system, where he said that "the corrupt will not stand idly by, and will defend stakeholders and privileges for their interests and privileges, so that some of them will fight for it, and will try to spoil each step we take in this direction." . Although he did not designate who accused them of Balafassad, he issued a warning against the politicization of the military forces and the popular crowd, which play a key role in the fight against Daash, saying, "We have to banish the military forces and the popular crowd on the field of politics."
The ruling system, which was established under the American military occupation of 2003 - 2011, includes many of the top positions overlapping, which was distributed along ethnic and sectarian lines between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, was intended to reduce the differences by keeping an inclusive government, where it has established the United States these positions in order to expand the representation of ethnic groups in the country as a way to enhance the legitimacy of the government. But it was prohibitively expensive political appointments and did nothing to enhance the government's efficiency in dealing with the security and social challenges.
Ebadi says that such appointments encouraged partisan and ethnic favoritism - sectarianism that led to the spread of corruption and incompetence has offered Iraq's future at risk, and it paved the ground for the nomination of incompetent and encourage corruption.
Abadi and insists that the reforms are not aimed at anyone in particular, although he warned that opponents may try to portray him as hostile to certain communities for fueling dissatisfaction. He says, "I'm afraid that some are trying to direct my words to a particular person, or against a particular group or organization, but not in the Bali specific person."
Abadi was chosen as prime minister because he were not to have strong relationships armed aggregates, which fought a sectarian civil war during the American occupation, so it was seen as more able to promote reconciliation of his predecessor, al-Maliki.
He took office at a time when Iraq is going through a political impasse and suffer from war, corruption and chronic, and the province wants to secede, and personal rivalry between political leaders, due to the collapse in oil export prices and the financial crisis. Since then, al-Abadi take steps to unite the country, including the replacement of military commanders incompetent and contract oil deal with the Kurdistan, but none of them was not remarkable Kaqrarh on government restructuring.
Said Ahmed Ali, an expert on Iraqi affairs and a fellow of the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University in Iraq, "it's more daring decisions Abadi've never seen a like her, where he was not crucial to this degree."
Although the support of the upper reference, to Ebadi makes it difficult for rivals opposition procedures publicly, they can still try to spoil his reforms from behind the scenes.
[rtl]*[/rtl]About: The New York Times / Science Monitor / Los Angeles Times

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