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Urgent .. Staging a protest on the decision to cancel the ration card
Saturday, October 10 2 / November 2012 14:19
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Twilight Neboz / left scores of people of Basra Province, Saturday, in a demonstration calling for the federal government to reverse the decision to cancel the ration card items.
The reporter said "Twilight News" which was close to the protest that "more than 300 people came out today in a demonstration in front of the Basra province, demanding the federal government reverse its decision to cancel the ration card items."
He explained that "the demonstrators held up banners bearing the phrase that the government is targeting the poor of this decision."
"The demonstrators marched to the Basra provincial council building, where a number of them to hand over their demands to the provincial council."
The Iraqi Council of Ministers issued Tuesday a decision to cancel the ration card system and replace it with $ 15 thousand dinars per person, but this decision met with popular rejection.
And announced the Basra Governorate Council, on Friday, its willingness received ration card file distribution vocabulary, demanding entrusted with this file to the provincial councils in the country.
The head of the provincial council the morning Albzona in an interview with "Twilight News" that "the Security Council is ready to receive a ration card and file distribution vocabulary on the people of the province rather than its abolition."
And demanded the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, last Wednesday, the government to intervene and control the market prices before going to cancel the ration card, suggesting that the amount allocated instead for the ration card 25 thousand dinars per person.
Referred to the Iraqi Communist Party announced, Wednesday, rejected the decision of the Council of Ministers, to cancel the ration card system, as described the decision as it reflects the "failure" of the government, and its inability to secure a basic need of the needs of citizens, called "Review" decision and " scrutiny "well in its results and consequences.
And announced the Liberal bloc in Parliament that represents the Sadrist movement, on the first of Thursday, collected signatures of 70 deputies to reverse its decision to cancel the ration card, proposed the formation of a supreme body to oversee the distribution of the vocabulary that card.
The Kurdistan Alliance announced, last Thursday, rejected the government's decision to cancel the ration card items and replace them with cash, returned cash distribution instead of the ration card "Papa new doors of corruption."
And adopt the majority of Iraqis on the ration card in their daily lives since the start of international sanctions on Iraq in 1991 after its invasion of Kuwait, and the ration card include rice, flour, vegetable oil, sugar, tea, washing powder, soap, and powdered milk (for adults), and powdered milk (for children), and legumes, beans and lentils and chickpeas. But reduced to rice, oil, sugar and flour.
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