Wednesday, 07 March / March 2012 09:56
{Erbil: News Euphrates] Describing the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and member of the Kurdistan parliament Abdul Salam Berwari prime minister's comments on the recent federal mentality adhering to the idea of one leader.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said in his speech at a conference held by the decentralization of the Ministry of State for Provincial Affairs on 27 February that "the system of decentralization may lead to secede sense, especially if there is a diversity of national, sectarian and otherwise."
He said Berwari told {Euphrates News} on Wednesday that "the permit-Maliki, who repeated it said the central and the central state and ignore that Iraq is not central but is a federal federal according to the first article of the Constitution, this indicates that the Iraqi mentality, especially the political elites are still committed to the idea of the leader Alouhd and the rule of category one or the dominance of one party or one person. "
He added that "the words of al-Maliki raises Aajabi that this mental imagine that the Kurdish movement or any other nationalist movement is a march from the outside, so stressed that even in the event of separation will be obtained to pay from abroad."
He said, "al-Maliki raised my attention when he spoke of the federal it will be divided Iraq would harm his unit at the same time said that there were successful experiences and an example of Belgium, while everyone knows that Belgium is made up of two provinces and one speaks German and the other speaks Dutch and the center speak both languages as well as the official language of any that Federal obtained on the basis of language, "expressing his" surprise at the contradiction in the words of al-Maliki. "
The Iraqi Constitution recognized the principle of federalism as a system in Iraq, where the rule of Article 113 of the Constitution provides that the federal system consists of the Republic of Iraq from the capital and the regions and governorates, central and local administrations.
The Constitution guarantees the right of each province or more to form a region at the request of the referendum in accordance with the conditions mentioned by the article 116 of the Constitution which request of one third members of each of the provincial councils intending to form a territory, and asked the tenth of the voters of each of the governorates intending to form a region. over 36 m
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