Parliamentary regions: Adoption of provincial law establishes decentralization for the first time in

Parliamentary regions: Adoption of provincial law establishes decentralization for the first time in the country

Tuesday, 02 July / July 2013 08:27 | PDF | Print | Send to a Friend

{Baghdad: Euphrates News} confirmed to the Committee of the Regions and provinces that parliamentary approval of the provincial law irregular province represents a revolution in the structure of the state institutions and consolidate decentralization for the first time in the country.

Committee Chairman MP Mohammed Kayani told {Euphrates News} on Tuesday that "the law will serve the interests of the people as a whole and the provinces and consolidate national unity because it will lead to economic recovery and provide the best and will power to push for construction of the country on the basis of state institutions."

The House voted tentatively minutes held by the twenty-third of the month of June, on the second amendment to the provincial law No. 21 of 2008 and submitted by the Committees legal and regions, despite the withdrawal of members of the bloc state law to protest not to add a paragraph had been demanded in the proposed law .

And gives the second amendment to the law of the provincial non-performing province, the number 21 for the year 2008 a lot of powers to the governors and heads of provincial councils.

Kayani said that "the law passed by parliament has voted on it under the dome and can be applied to give wide powers to the provinces to do their work and enable them to provide services to citizens and the reconstruction of areas and provide employment opportunities."

He said the "constitutional law being launched under the umbrella of the Constitution and any objection to it is unconstitutional," explaining that "the law gives the provinces a decentralized administrative, financial, and this is what we have done."

Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Regions and the provinces parliamentary Mansour al-Tamimi stressed that "the implementation of the law will lead to the solution of all problems between the central and local governments, describing the attempt to overturn the law of the provinces as" desperate, "and noting that these attempts are in order to cover up the failure of the ministries and provincial councils earlier.

MP for the citizen Bloc Hassoun Fatlawi For his part, stressed that "to pass a law provinces and ratification is a great historic achievement and he gives wider powers to local governments to enable them to provide better services to the citizen."

Fatlawi said that "the approach pursued by martyr Mehrab stream since the beginning was to give wider powers to local governments, and this principle is the basis of the current, noting that citizens are now aware of the how important theses stream is a martyr of the mihrab and the positive benefits to the community."

He added that "there is an urgent need to give the provinces wider powers, especially since the democratic system over the past ten years, failed much in the service of the citizen to adopt the basis of not giving broad powers to the provinces, adding that the law will transfer powers from ministries to local governments and thus be able to do its job free and provide services to citizens through the exercise of these powers. "

The president of the Committee of the Regions parliamentary and provincial Mohammed Kayani said that "now it depends on the sons of the provinces to demand their rights and on the central government to apply this law, otherwise no wrap it will have serious consequences."

And ended the Attorney Kayani to say "the law is a revolution in the structure of state institutions for the first time establishes decentralization in the country and this will serve the interests of the people as a whole and the provinces and consolidates national unity because it will lead to economic recovery and provide the best and will power to push for construction of the country on the basis of state institutions." Ended 2

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