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Saleh and the Iranian ambassador stress the need to support the government's measures to protect diplomatic missions

2020-10-03 | 14:37
Saleh and the Iranian ambassador stress the need to support the government's measures to protect diplomatic missions
 
 
 
 
 
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The President of the Republic, Barham Salih, and the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad, on Saturday, stressed the need to support government measures in protecting diplomatic missions.

The presidency said in a statement that Alsumaria News received a copy of, that "The President of the Republic received, today, Saturday, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi, and during the meeting they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to develop prospects for joint cooperation in all fields, in a way that serves the interest of the two neighboring peoples and two countries," As well as discussing the latest political developments on the regional arena, the importance of easing tensions in the region, and the commitment to dialogue and strengthening regional security and peace.
 
The statement added, "The need to support government measures in protecting diplomatic missions, consolidating state authority and enforcing the law, and indicating that the stability of Iraq and overcoming crises in the region is important and necessary to achieve peace, and to move towards opportunities for development and joint cooperation."

For his part, Masjedi affirmed, "his country's commitment to support the stability of Iraq and to strengthen economic and social ties between the two countries and the two neighboring peoples."
 
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Report: Sistani may deal a blow to 'traditional' political forces through a new 'fatwa'!

2020.10.04 - 10:25
Report: Sistani may deal a blow to 'traditional' political forces through a new 'fatwa'!
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On Sunday, a press report talked about the possibility that the supreme religious authority would intervene to make early elections succeed according to conditions, while he believed that this would cut off the road to traditional political forces "that are good at methods of rigging the elections or hijacking their results."  

The report, published by the London-based Al-Arab newspaper and followed by Nas, (4 October) indicated that "the effect of fraud, which is common in the Iraqi elections, will diminish if the voters participate in a large number, because the number of votes required to win will be greater."  

  

The text of the report follows:  

  

Informed sources in the Iraqi city of Najaf said that the supreme religious authority, Ali al-Sistani, may invite his Shiite imitators to broad participation in the early polls scheduled for the summer of next year to choose a new parliament, in an effort that observers say aims to re-give the political process electoral legitimacy after Iraq failed since 2003 To get out of the tunnel of quotas and push the electorate to a wide district.  

The last parliamentary elections that took place in 2018 recorded the lowest participation rate, after Iraqis boycotted it on a large scale, in protest against the participation of the corrupt, and the absence of any prospects for change, which was considered a popular declaration of the failure of this democratic practice that political Islam parties are able to exploit to establish their political influence in Parliament. And the government.  

Sistani's invitation to participate in the elections is crucial to ensuring their success, given his wide influence among his Twelver Shiite followers in Iraq.  

The Supreme Leader Ali al-Sistani does not intend to favor one candidate over another or party alone, but he will call for massive participation "if he touches fairness in the election law and integrity in the preparatory procedures."  

Observers say that widespread participation in the elections may limit the fortunes of traditional political forces that are good at methods of rigging the elections, hijacking their results, or buying the votes of voters participating in them.  

The effect of fraud, which is so common in Iraqi elections, will diminish if the voters participate in a large number, because the number of votes required to win will be greater.  

On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi directed the Election Commission to redouble its efforts to accelerate the completion of Iraqi voter registration as soon as possible, in preparation for early elections, calling on Iraqis eligible to vote to “speed up updating their electoral data to obtain their biometric electoral card.”  

Al-Kazemi had received on Friday a report on the meeting of a high-level government delegation with the President and members of the Board of Commissioners of the Independent High Electoral Commission, which was devoted to discussing ways to achieve the complete biometric registration of Iraqi voters who were eligible for the upcoming elections, whose total number exceeds 26 million voters, including the eligible newborns born in 2001. And 2002 and 2003 as well as the displaced.  

During the review of the report, Al-Kazemi stressed "the importance of enabling all voters to vote in the early parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place next June," noting that "their broad participation in voting is evidence of the Iraqi people's confidence in democracy and a constitutional civil order, and also contributes to blocking the road." Abusers of the integrity and transparency of the electoral process. "  

Al-Kazemi praised the "technical and professional capabilities of the commission's experts and staff and their efforts and diligence in registering and organizing the data of an increasing number of voters and granting them their electoral cards at the required time." Their biometric electronic cards that will allow them to vote in the elections. "  

Observers link the signals coming from Najaf about Sistani's support for widespread popular participation in the elections and Al-Kazemi's moves to ensure the completion of the technical procedures for the polling, amid speculation that the elections may actually take place on schedule, which is June 2021.  

https://www.nasnews.com/view.php?cat=41889

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Al-Azzawi reveals political understandings to resolve electoral districts in next week's session

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Deputy Abdel Khaleq Al-Azzawi revealed, on Saturday, political understandings that will lead to the settlement of districts in the new election law in the session of the tenth of October.

Al-Azzawi said in an interview with "the information", that "there are political understandings that have begun to take a unified path towards approaching a mechanism to resolve the options proposed for the multi-constituency file in the new election law, stressing that 80% of the disputes have been settled so far."

He added, "The next October 10th session may decide the voting for the districts file after a debate that lasted for weeks about the proposals put forward, stressing that the decision of the districts is the beginning of pushing the Electoral Commission to start procedures regarding preparing for the early electoral marathon although the complications have not ended and there are many difficulties it will face, especially since the file Circuitry requires a lot of variants in tools. ”

The House of Representatives decided to set aside the next October 10 session as the date for resolving the multi-district clause in the new election law. Finished 25 F.

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/03/498242/

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An American report: There is a political split over the targeting of diplomatic missions ... and special interests are behind the conflicting positions

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 A report by the American newspaper Al-Monitor said that armed groups continue their missile attacks on US bases and targeting diplomatic missions in Iraq, while Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi seeks to rein in them after the US government threatened to close its embassy in Baghdad.
The report, written by researcher and writer Adnan AbuZayd, monitors a political division over the attack on diplomatic missions in Iraq.
On September 25, 2020, Muqtada al-Sadr called for the formation of a committee to investigate security breaches against diplomatic missions and official state headquarters, to be welcomed by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, stressing that the coalition of corruption and fugitive weapons has no place in Iraq.
In strengthening the front of the rejection of arms chaos, the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Muhammad al-Halbousi also, on the same day, supported Al-Sadr’s initiative and calling for an investigation into the repeated missile attacks targeting the US embassy.
Before that, Moqtada al-Sadr’s warning on September 18, 2020, of “a dark tunnel into Iraq, as a result of targeting cultural and diplomatic headquarters,” coincided with explosive devices targeting the American Institute in Najaf on the same day, as this escalation appears to be a systematic method, after On September 18, 2020, IEDs also targeted convoys carrying international coalition equipment south of Salah al-Din (north).
A missile fell near the US base at Baghdad airport on September 20, 2020, and Katyusha rockets hit the vicinity of the US embassy in the Green Zone in the center of the capital, Baghdad, on September 19, 2020. And the last attacks were on Erbil.
And last Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi met at the Government Palace in Baghdad with ambassadors of 25 countries to discuss the security situation in Iraq. After the meeting - which included representatives of a number of Western and Arab countries - the ambassadors issued a statement condemning the attacks on foreign diplomatic missions and foreign forces and expressed their support for the Prime Minister’s moves to address the concerns of the foreign missions in the country.
Attacks on foreign missions and forces have increased in recent days.
On September 15, 2020, an explosive device was exposed to diplomatic vehicles of the British Embassy in Baghdad, while security sources confirmed that a foreign diplomatic convoy had exploded in Baghdad.
The repeated targeting of the embassy prompted the US ambassador to Baghdad, Matthew Toller, on September 17, 2020, to consider "targeting the US embassy and the international coalition forces in Iraq, undermining the authority of the Iraqi state."
While analyzes indicate that the targeting of diplomatic missions is a clear escalation of the power struggle between the government and militant groups, and an indirect way to pressure the government that is trying to fight corruption, the spokesman for the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasoul, told Al-Monitor, A diplomatic mission or embassy, or international coalition convoys, is an act outside the law, "noting that" diplomatic missions and the international coalition are in Iraq according to official agreements, and the coalition forces are working to develop Iraqi forces in the areas of training, arming, and equipping, and targeting them is attached to them. " Damage to the Iraqi forces. "
Badr Al-Ziyadi, a member of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee for the Sadrist-led Saeron Coalition, admits in his speech to Al-Monitor that "the targeting of missions and the mechanisms of transferring support to the coalition has begun to take an upward turn," noting that "if the intent of exposure to diplomatic missions is to force "The foreign forces are to leave, it is necessary to follow political and parliamentary means instead of plunging Iraq into the security chaos."
However, Wael Abdel-Latif, a former parliamentarian and the current politician, tells Al-Monitor about another reason for the targeting, which is "the great ignorance in dealing with the international coalition forces led by the United States of America, as some people think that there are only American forces on one side, and on the other side, the targeting of the headquarters Diplomatic missions and forces is a serious violation of relevant international agreements and treaties.
And if Abd al-Latif considered “the attack on the missions as an armed exit against the will of the state and has a negative impact on the international reputation of Iraq,” Mahmoud al-Hashemi, the researcher and political writer, secretary of the National Media Observatory, talks to Al-Monitor about a different conclusion. He says that “the biggest mistake that governments have committed The successive political blocs have not condemned the attacks that took place in previous times on some foreign consulates in Iraq, and considered that this represents a victory for their desires, while the government position was weak, if not non-existent, in punishing those who did so.
Al-Hashemi considered that "the US embassy in Iraq bore the brunt of the mistakes of its governments’ management in dealing with the Iraqi issue, such as the assassination of Soleimani and the engineer, and this allowed their supporters to believe that targeting US military sites is a means of revenge. "
Al-Hashemi believes that the targeting of the US embassy is due to the fact that it has "turned into a quasi-military barracks, and that just surrounding it with counter-attacks and the military means that it has turned into a (military site) and allows attacking it.
Al-Hashemi believes that there is "opposition and not condemnation of the attacks by prominent political blocs, such as the head of the Al-Hikma Movement, Ammar al-Hakim or the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, to avoid escalation with regard to diplomatic missions, but they left the door open to striking foreign military sites and logistical support convoys."
Ihssan Al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking, refers to Al-Monitor to special political interests behind the stances towards the attacks on missions, speaking of an example of that in "the nature of Muqtada al-Sadr's position, which is related to strengthening the image of this Shiite leader as being in the category of those working within the state and its official discourse." He considered that "Al-Sadr does not want to appear and those who follow him that he is above the state, just as Al-Sadr began to believe that the peaceful path will distance Iraq from the repercussions of the dispute between Washington and Tehran."
Al-Shammari observes a collective agreement on calm, saying: "At the level of the Iraqi interior, raising the level of friction, leading to clashes, will increase the chances of security chaos. Therefore, calls for the exit of US forces in accordance with legal contexts are part of the consensus process in a unified position through Parliament."
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Al-Shammari concludes that "the front of targeting American interests at the Shiite level has become few, because the majority prefers a political solution, and the voice is loud against targeting the American presence."
Al-Shammari admits that "there is a Shiite split towards Al-Sadr's call. There are those who reject it from the factions that confirm the proceeding with the attacks, but this does not mean that it has departed from Iranian obedience as much as it exerts more pressure on Washington, while Tehran still views the factions loyal to it as part One of the tools of conflict inside Iraq. "
Al-Shammari does not expect "an armed confrontation between the Shiite parties because of Al-Sadr's call, because Iran has lines of communication and good relations with Al-Sadr."
It is clear that there is a sharp division in the situation between the extremist parties that adopt the security escalation, which do not calculate the consequences of this, and the majority of the political, Shiite and Kurdish parties, which reject the escalation by targeting diplomatic missions and international coalition convoys, because of its harmful effect on internal stability, And on the relationship with Washington and the countries of the world.
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After the formation of a professional security force to protect the polling stations, will the Al-Kazemi government succeed in blocking the electoral fraud and forcing the citizen to "party voting"?

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Observers said that the Iraqi collective opinion is consistent with the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi in the firm conviction that powerful political forces seek to rig the elections and extract the people's vote by force of arms, after they have given up on the delay.

It is a project that Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi revealed in a television interview on Al-Iraqiya satellite channel that political forces reject the elections on time and seek to postpone them.


Determined attempts to falsify and fabricate results and forcing people to forcibly vote for certain parties require the government to protect the voter and polling stations from the power of uncontrolled weapons, while it has become clear that the government is aware of this hidden "conspiracy" that seeks to subdue the national voting will and turn it into a party vote, as happened In previous round elections, the real votes were absent in favor of the will of the parties.


On Sunday, October 4, 2020, the Prime Minister’s Adviser for Elections Affairs, Hussain al-Hindawi, revealed the formation of a security committee consisting of a group of officers in the Ministry of Interior, in partnership with the Elections Commission, to secure the voting process inside and outside the stations.


Al-Hindawi said in a press statement, that a security committee was formed of officers in the Ministry of Interior and the Independent High Electoral Commission and began to hold its meetings with regard to the elections, and with the passage of time, its work was developing and expanding.


He added that one of the tasks of the committee is to create a safe environment, whether inside the polling stations during the upcoming early elections, or outside. There is also a committee from various ministries to provide all the needs of the commission.


At a time when political blocs are struggling over the system in which the next elections will take place in early June 2021, analyzes indicate many possibilities for election results, which will constitute a milestone in the Iraqi political system since 2003, and the most prominent of these possibilities is the change of the Shiite political map. In favor of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, in ensuring its majority, if he could neutralize the commission and end the influence of the power parties in it, and success would be his ally, as Nuri al-Maliki's 2010 victory.


Sources monitoring and analyzing developments in the positions on the electoral system accuse that most of the parliamentarians are eager to divide regions into "loyal" electoral districts according to their vision of their interest, noting that what happened in the last session of Parliament is an evident conspiracy by many MPs, against the people, of circumventing Method of dividing regions into electoral districts.

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/202327/بعد-تشكيل-قوة-أمنية-مهنية-تحمي-مراكز-الاقتراع-هل-تنجح-حكومة-الكاظمي-في-قطع-الطريق-على-تزوير-الانتخابات-واجبار-المواطن-على-التصويت-الحزبي

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Kazemi and Saleh: monopolizing the positions of ambassadors

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Criticism of the harmony between Barham Salih and Mustafa Al-Kazemi (Twitter)

Iraqi political forces have recently raised new accusations against the Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi , about monopolizing the positions of ambassadors and appointing them according to political "deals", waving a pause in Parliament against these appointments, calling for adherence to the law and the constitution.
And the political dispute in Iraq is pushing towards successive crises, as a result of the contradictory agendas of the major political forces that seek to achieve their interests, which is reflected in the political process through the forces' continuing to raise different files.
Until last year, Parliament was preparing to vote on 88 ambassadors for Iraq in different countries, but the political crisis following the resignation of the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi and the subsequent events disrupted the vote, especially after objections to the names of many of them, as it also came through sectarian and party quotas.
MP Rami al-Skini said, last Thursday, that “most of the current ambassadors’ appointments are taking place according to a political dish between the presidents of the republic and the ministers, and with them Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, ”indicating in a press briefing that“ there are ambassadors who have been nominated according to political deals. And that the sponsors of those deals are Saleh, Kazemi and Hussein. "
He pointed out that "most of those who were nominated for the positions of ambassadors abroad, were nominated far from the sight of Parliament." 
In turn, a member of the Parliament's Legal Committee, MP Amjad Al-Oqabi, warned of the consequences of "manipulation and failure to abide by the powers of appointments," stressing the need for the appointment of any ambassador to be approved by Parliament.
In a statement to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Al-Oqabi said, "None of these nominations have yet reached Parliament, and that the positions of ambassadors and special ranks must be voted on in Parliament."
He pointed out that, "some time ago, Al-Kazemi appointed a number of personalities to positions in the independent bodies of the proxy," calling on him to "send the lists to Parliament, otherwise this would be considered evasive by him," considering that "harmony between the two presidents does not affect the appointment, if the decision is In Parliament. "
He stressed that "it is not in their interest to plot or act against the parties, especially the parties that formed the government," warning, "We will have a pause in Parliament if these appointments continue, and we will reject that, and Al-Kazemi must act in accordance with the law and the constitution."
On the other hand, the deputy for the Kurdish forces, Ala Talabani, rejected those charges, warning against seeking to provoke crises and their negative consequences for the country.
Talabani told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed, "The names of ambassadors are two lists, the first is nominated by the government, and the other is nominations made by political parties, and that each of the two lists includes 35 names, and that the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee follows the lists of names."the conditions for holding elections

She emphasized that "the government's list included personalities with experience in the diplomatic corps, and they deserved the title of ambassador, while the other list was made according to the choice of all political parties and constituencies."
And she considered that "some political parties fear the cooperation of the presidencies among themselves, at a time when dealing with him should be a positive thing and represent the unity of opinion that should not provoke anyone." Against him. "
And she stressed that "the country's situation is heading towards a dangerous slope, security and economic, which requires cooperation from the political forces and unifying visions to come out with decisions that bring Iraq out with the least losses, instead of provoking crises."

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/politics/قوى-عراقية-تثير-شبهات-ضد-الكاظمي-وصالح-احتكار-مناصب-السفراء

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The Minister of Finance stresses the need to supplement the general budget with eight trillion dinars from taxes

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Today, Sunday, Minister of Finance Ali Allawi stressed the need to supplement the general budget with eight trillion dinars from taxes.

Allawi said, according to the Iraqi News Agency, that "Iraq is in the process of transferring its budget from the traditional to the program budget," noting that "the transition from the traditional budget to the program budget needs a year and a half."

 He added that "the budget should be supplemented with eight trillion dinars in taxes," noting that "the tax rate will not be high."

https://takadum-news.com/وزير-المالية-يؤكد-على-ضرورة-رفد-المواز/

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Former foreign minister: The American withdrawal has catastrophic repercussions for Iraq and the entire region

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Baghdad / Al-Akhbariya:
Former Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned, on Sunday, of the repercussions of the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, indicating that our interest is in the stability of the country and the success of the Al-Kazimi government.
"The United Nations mission in Iraq is playing a mediating role to calm the situation and stop attacks against diplomatic missions," Zebari said in a televised statement followed by Al-Akhbariya.
He added, "Our interest in the stability of the country and the success of the Al-Kazemi government, and that the American withdrawal has dangerous repercussions on Iraq and the region as well."
He added, "We do not want Iraq to return to international isolation and economic blockade, and there are no guarantees that the United States will remain in its consulate in Erbil when it withdraws from Baghdad."
 
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