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A political earthquake strikes local governments despite the decision to postpone the elections


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A political earthquake strikes local governments despite the decision to postpone the elections



 Baghdad / Wael Ne'ma 
 

Despite the postponement of provincial elections next year, a number of governments are living on the impact of a political earthquake that has changed the top of the pyramid of power. 
The last week in Iraq was the strangest in several years. Two governors have been replaced in the two largest provinces, while the judiciary has restored a governor who has been sacked for years, while the governor of the fourth popular demand is on the run. 

The movement that has been taking place for weeks in the provinces seems to be a "partial" exchange of power in local governments, especially as it coincides with the constitutional date for holding local elections. 
During the month of August, the judiciary sentenced to 3 years imprisonment of the governor of Salah al-Din Ahmed al-Jubouri on the background of his involvement in corruption cases, and sentenced Anbar governor Suhaib al-Rawi to a one-year suspended sentence for wasting money. 
The last verdict was against the narrator for his subsequent dismissal.
The governor of Basra, Majid al-Nasrawi, announced a few days later, his resignation during the opening ceremony of a giant bridge in the province, before leaving the country with his foreign passport. 
Before that, the Baghdad government had seen the first attempt to hit the alliances of the 2013 elections, after the success of the rule of law, last spring, attracting parties close to Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, allied with the Sadrists, in preparation for the removal of governor Ali al-Tamimi. 
Observers had predicted then that the wave of changes in local governments will not stop at Baghdad, and find their way to the provinces the rest. 
These expectations were achieved after a year, as the situation exploded dramatically in the provinces of Anbar, Salah al-Din and Basra. 
Election Barometer
The mandate of local governments was supposed to end in April. Local elections have long been seen as a mass probe to test their impact on parliamentary elections, usually one year after the first. 
But the recent parliamentary vote to merge the legislative and local elections and the extension of the current provincial council has lost political forces, which are poised to replace the latter, with the opportunity to discover their popularity. 
Farhan Mohammed, a member of the Anbar provincial council, believes the overthrow of the governor will affect the political bloc's size. 
"The movement in the province, and the dismissal of Suhaib al-Rawi, were not motivated by the elimination of corruption, but for political reasons," he said. 
Al-Rawi belongs to the Islamic Party, one of the oldest and largest Sunni parties in Iraq, and belongs to parliament speaker Salim al-Jubouri.
A month ago, the Anbar provincial council decided to vote on the sacking of the narrator following a court ruling that he had been jailed for one year suspended on charges of corruption. 
Two previous attempts to oust al-Barawi, who returned to his post after receiving judicial decisions, failed. 
"Since the first day of the sacking of the narrator, the opposition front has opened the door to nominate the 
alternative," said Farhan Mohammed . 
Until recently, the opposition had represented the minority in the Anbar Council, but the coup of some members of the council has turned the latter into a majority. 
The name of the head of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives and a member of the solution bloc, MP Mohammed Halboussi, was leaked at that time as the strongest candidate for governor. 
Only 24 hours after the administrative court's decision to dismiss the narrator, the Anbar Council met on Tuesday evening with the absence of eight members and chose Halabousi for governor.
Farhan Mohammed, a member of the conservative group, said that "the vote was unanimously approved by 22 members who were present out of 30." 
And the overthrow of Sobhib al-Rawi from the government of Anbar, the "coalition of solution" and the mass of the Minister of Electricity Qassem Fahdawi, and the deputy Junaid al-Kassanzani, they represent the majority in the Council. Those parties, had tried for months to overthrow the governor, and accused of being behind the prosecution of cases against the governor and some of his supporters . 

Aidana Basra and 
in the same week, the Basra Governorate Council met, two weeks after the resignation of former governor Majid Nasraoui, to choose the happiest Alaidani instead of the last. 
Al-Aidani is an ambivalent mix of political backgrounds. He belongs to the National Congress and holds a senior position in his ranks, while he was a candidate for the House of Representatives for a block of state law during the elections of 2014. He recognized the stream of wisdom, after the selection of Eidani shortly, as a candidate of the current, and demanded more work to serve
Basra. 
Jawad al-Bezouni, the head of the wisdom movement in Basra, said that "Eidani will open a new page of the relationship between the province and the 
provincial council ." 
Al-Eidani's choice came at a time when the head of the Basra Council, Sabah al-Bezouni, was still under investigation for 
corruption. 
The new governor was among a list of 40 names. 
"The problem of the former governor was not consistent with the provincial council, and the province was flooded with projects, mostly recreational and unfinished," he said. 
The head of the Hakim movement in Basra believes that "Eidani will stop many projects lagging and will not involve the province with 
new projects ."
"Improving the relationship between the council and the province will prompt the government to release Basra funds, which Baghdad stopped because of the incompatibility of the former governor with the political forces in the province," said al-Bezouni, a former deputy. 

Political surprises 
This week witnessed other arguments, such as the restoration of the province of Wasit Mahmoud Mullah Talal to his post, after the provincial council had dismissed him three years ago after a questioning session. 
The current Governor of Wasit, Malik Khalaf, told a news conference after the decision to reinstate Mullah Talal that he would leave office without "objection or attempt to 
challenge." When he was elected, Khalaf belonged to the Supreme Council, headed by Ammar al-Hakim. 
Meanwhile, in Diyala, claims of the resignation of governor Muthanna al-Tamimi, against the backdrop of poor services in the province.
The Diyala provincial council voted early in 2014 to choose Tamimi, instead of former governor Omar al-Hamiri, who considered the trial session to be "illegal." 
On Sunday, protesters left Diyala, cutting off the main road between the province and Baghdad. The protesters demanded the Prime Minister Haider Abadi direct intervention to supervise the border crossings, and the dismissal of Tamimi to mismanagement of the province, and the exploitation of his job for his personal interests and stealing public money.

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