Baghdad, Karbala / Orr News
While seeking parliamentary blocs Iraqi to collect signatures 70 deputies to stop the decision of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to cancel the ration card and that sparked "revolution of the hungry", proposed the formation of a supreme body to oversee the distribution of the ration that card, said a representative of religious reference in Karbala, Sheikh Abdel Mahdi al-Karbalai "objection religious authority on the decision to cancel the ration card. "
He asked in a Friday sermon from the threshold Husseiniya holy day: "Why are canceled ration card?, Stressing that" the rationale cancellation which refers to the elimination of corruption and financial الادراي unconvincing and unacceptable and illogical and show saying excuse ugliest of guilt. "
He said: "This measure will carry poor families new burdens due to the circumstances surrounding the" wondering: "How does the distribution of money instead of the card Almwyneh? It is guaranteed not to increase prices? It sets prices?", Stressing that "traders are controlled display these materials market and families will be at the mercy of traders. "
He added: "If the Ministry of Commerce is doing import and sale in the market has been unable to provide in the past years, how can you can provide and is unable to hold price gougers and Tovralamwad in markets as evidenced by what happened in the month of Ramadan, it could not be maintain prices. "
He asked: "Who ensures that the new mechanism will eliminate corruption in state institutions?", Adding that "the officials were unable to control corruption," stressing at the same time the need to "reconsider this decision and there are many contacts of citizens with reference religious in Najaf in this matter. "
And exacerbated the controversy within the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on the ration card, the State of Law coalition led by Maliki and the rest of the blocks, in conjunction with the approval of the Legal Committee parliamentary pass to the presidency of the parliament to legislate law defining the mandates of the three presidencies two sessions and endorsed by most of the parliamentary blocs amid objections Maliki's bloc, which has threatened to resort to judiciary to stop it.
And launched national campaigns at various levels Iraqi demanding the return of the ration card which is the lifeblood of millions of Iraqi people who can not find breadwinners not clog summit feed their children. The Council of Ministers canceled the decision issued at its forty-eighth of the ration card currently in place and replace it with cash distributed to the covered system mentioned by (15) thousand dinars per capita, was lifted to 25 thousand yesterday evening Amtsam popular indignation.
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