4/17/2015
He attributed the deputies from Basra, officially start the procedures of Basra province, the government's suspension of work broad powers to the provinces and provided by the law 21, expecting to get Basra on 10% of the federal budget if they succeeded in passing a province. Despite the recognition of the House of Representatives that the initial actions were "easy and uncomplicated," but acknowledged the difficulty of the next steps, which include a two referendums require a vote on the region by 50% of those who have the right to participate in elections.
Announced Independent Electoral Commission last week, receiving Basra elections office locations of 44 thousand citizens of the people of the province applied for the purpose of forming a special province of the government, has indicated that it will be discussed in demand during the next week of the legal and formal terms.
Zaher al-Abadi, MP for the province of Basra, in an interview with the "long", that "he says, almost 44 000 optical offered locations to the Electoral Commission request, on Wednesday, for the purpose of forming a special province Bmhafezthm," noting that "the request came squalid conditions experienced by Basra province of exclusion and marginalization and neglect in the provision of services to citizens. "
He said al-Abadi said, "This applicants are waiting for the measures to be undertaken by the Electoral Commission in the province of Basra, during the next few days, and the application of controls and legal standards as a prelude to a referendum of the questionnaire attitude people of Basra from the idea of establishing the province," calling on the Electoral Commission to "set a date for the referendum After completion of all constitutional and legal requirements. "
And confirms the MP block reform, "the existence of large political blocs stand deduced from the idea of the composition of Basra province and rejected an attempt to abort the idea in any way," adding that "the people of Basra are seeking to maintain their unity and not division to one two teams against the province and the other to adopt this idea and strive to achieve them ".
And what will achieve the province for the people of Basra, MP Zaher al-Abadi, "the province says will provide a stable administratively, financially, militarily and politically, and the elimination of underdevelopment after the election of the presidency of the province and government, ministers and parliament," adding that "the province's budget will rise to nearly 10% of the federal budget size."
States (Article 119) of the Constitution reads as follows: "Each province is entitled or more to form a region based on a request for a referendum offers either at the request of one third of the members in each of the provincial councils intending to form a region or at the request of ten voters in each of the governorates intending to form a region. "
In the same context, explains Salim Shawki, a deputy from the province of Basra, the establishment of the province actions by saying, "There are two ways to set up the provinces, the first by submitting the request of one-third of the members of the provincial council to the Prime Minister, which was addressed to the Electoral Commission to determine the date of the referendum conditional achieving 51% of the votes of conservative voters to turn their wallets to the territory. "
He Shawki, told the "long", "The second method is to collect signatures constitute 2% of the votes in the province and are submitted to the Electoral Commission directly, which in turn transforming it to the Prime Minister directed the work of a referendum requires access to 51%."
Acknowledges the optical MP as "there are difficulties facing their work to achieve the Basra province, expected after the completion of the initial actions that describe achieved an easy and uncomplicated," adding, "But the problems that lie ahead in achieving ratio 51st% of the total who have the right to participate in the general election."
And calls for the MP for the Bloc citizens to "concerted efforts of the people of Basra in order to achieve their region and put an end to all the suffering faced by Albesrion over the past years," and believed that "the achievement of Basra province will put an end to projects lagging and waste of public money."
Shows the MP Salim Shawki "There are 6000 project laggard by various ministries over the past year in the whole of Iraq, valued at about $ 208 billion, as well as the central bank sales, during the past nine years, an estimated $ 300 billion, has been taken out out of Iraq because of collusion or shortening the previous government and the central bank, "he said," what we have observed over the past years of mismanagement reflected negatively on the provinces and specifically the province of Basra. "
It stresses a member of the citizen bloc, led by Ammar al-Hakim, the "presence of the decline to the level of all health services and security pieces in the province of Basra after obvious neglect by the federal government," and saw that it "was born Mahromep and pay the inhabitants of Basra to the orientation of the claim province," referring to stop Labour Law No. 21 provincial assemblies required to establish as one of the reasons for the province.
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