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The promises of the National Conference
24/01/2012
Mohammed Abdul-Jabbar carp
There are many hopes for the National Conference to be held at a time. There are many difficulties in the way. More importantly, the conference site diagnosis from the political process: Is it part of the problem, or part of the solution?
Many are the causes of the problem, but the problems that stand in the way the political process and now the Iraqi state. It goes without saying that a lot of things accomplished since the fall of the dictatorial regime so far, but also there are a lot of things that have remained unresolved. Solution can not be thinking does not go directly to the reasons. And always lies in the reasons disadvantages of incorporation and the mistakes that accompanied the practice of the political process since its inception with the formation of the Governing Council dissolved.
Of these defects and errors as a teacher participating in the government's only involvement in the political process, and to consider the opposition as a form of out of it. Everyone wants to participate in the government. And participation are based on the term is an Iraqi "elections." It was under this concept is the equation of the portfolios a certain number of parliamentary seats. The result was a "government of each country song." Such a government can not operate, or at least will be a government burdened not able to act quickly and take the appropriate decision in due course. It is obvious that the agreement difficult to imagine a government that includes everyone. Against this, there is a refusal advertiser or padded to the concept of opposition. No one wants to be an opponent, even if it is different with the government. Some talk about withdrawing from the political process because of disagreement with the government, while the democratic logic says that the difference with the government a reason to shift to the opposition, and not a reason to withdraw from the entire political process. Some even do not "threaten" to shift to the opposition. As if the opposition "bogeyman" to scare the others, while it does not need to "threatened." The issue is simply when you can not be in the ranks of the government, you can be in opposition. The opposition in democratic regimes is part of the government, even if that were not part of the government. Governance consists of government and the opposition together. And the political process going Bekazatan, one of the government and the second to the opposition. This happens in the United States, Britain and other democratic systems obsolete.
Difficult to imagine the success of the national conference if he took off to look for ways for the participation of everyone in the government. This death certificate prior to the conference, or even the failure of a government formed on this basis. If the art of the possible policy, the government is not empowered everyone from easy in democracies. The conference will be easy if everyone gave up and combine the idea of collective participation and elections.
Without this, you might the political process on the same cycle again, only to find itself in the end of the session it was still in the box first.
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