Assurances of the importance of the census amid criticism of the claim by mentioning religious affiliation
01/17/2013 12:00 am
Planning reveal the lack of updates on the project
Baghdad, Omar Abdel Latif
stressed politicians the importance of holding the draft general census of population which demanded to initiate it demonstrators recently.
except that most of these politicians have criticized the claim by mentioning religious affiliation or ideological. comes at a time when the head count in the Ministry of Planning Mahdi Keywords absence of any progress on the implementation of this project. Demonstrators demanded in some provinces to conduct a comprehensive census before the general election with details belonging to all Iraqis of doctrine and national and religious. said member Liberal bloc Zainab السهلاني: that "there are some demands legitimate by the protesters while there demands tinged everything from illegitimacy. "She السهلاني told the" Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network, "that these two things overlap in all the demands by the presence of a buffer zone between legitimate and whether or not each demand them. continued: "The requirement if agreed with the law there is nothing wrong achieved if either outside the law and the rules in force in all aspects of social life in Iraq is possible to be addressed to accelerate and cancellation of characterized with the law or to be formulated according to a rule of law, where if transformed must be applied by all competent organs ". showed السهلاني that" a general census of the population requirement is necessary and very important, because there is no census thus lead to stop life fully and referral social organizations and economic development in the country to chaos, "pointing out that the census could include details determine ages and races and professions, patients and healthy controls and people with a disability to prepare a database belonging to the people that there a number for each citizen and databases. "also showed that such a thing is very important to be able to know the details of the lives and affairs of every citizen to restructure all functional affairs and social and economic development in the country., said member Iraqi List Qais Cdhir: "We before the census've come to a lot of facts about the composition of the people," and wondered: "Is that the census could determine that such community or other second-class citizens or third in the country." He Cdhir In a special statement (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network) that "all citizens want law enforcement on them fairly and as stipulated by the legislator to have everyone be subject to the same law without discrimination between the citizen or that."
in turn, confirmed a member of the Iraqi List Ghaida Kmbash a problem large in the case of the census and the ration card in Diyala province, especially that Iraq at the gates of the provincial elections. called Kmbash told the "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network," "competent authorities to find a solution and database and new information and new statistics in order to resolve this issue before elections, "pointing to" the existence of administrative problems on this subject through the existence of villages and areas have a problem with the capital, Baghdad, and is now returned to the province of Diyala, but their cards ration mounted name the province of Baghdad. "and warned that" this issue is not limited to problem elections only, but there is a problem service, because the provinces refuse to provide them with services pretext that each one received to maintain the second of these areas. "As a member bloc virtue Hussein Mura'bi has pointed out that" a general census of the population is the subject of more than is necessary, because the There are a lot of provinces may Bgent their rights because not holding this benefit. "He said a lot of provinces allocated annual amounts less than the number of the existing population where, stressing that it is necessary to know the size of each province and merits, either related issues Nationalities and Almzhabiyat are non-essential in this time.
continued Mura'bi: "If there were demands mass and insistence by some to install these things, there is no objection to that, it is not a question very bad or where problematic large, as it is important to hold the project quickly because it will ensure that all interests of the community." In the meantime, only the head of the Central Bureau of Statistics in the Ministry of Planning, Dr. Mahdi Mohsen Keywords answer our question on developments in the project general census of population, that "there is nothing new there was on the subject of the census."
said Keywords in a statement singled out by the (Center Brief Iraqi Media Network): "We are still awaiting the political agreement on this National Merit".
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