Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim: ending the state administration proxy positions will eliminate the deep administrative networks of corruption

Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, reiterated his call to end proxy employment in governmental positions in the Iraqi state administration, that the end of this administrative unsound issue will end the deep administrative networks of corruption, stressing the need to know corruption tools and methods used to escape the hand of law and accountability, diagnosing crisis in Iraq as a management crisis in all aspects, calling for an administrative uprising in all aspects of the state targeting at routine, producing governance and drive the economy and contribute to legislating important laws.

This took place at Baghdad Dewan for professional elites and competencies and union leaders at his eminence’s office in Baghdad Saturday, 06.08.2016.

His Eminence stressed the need to pay attention to the post-ISIS phase and determine priorities, which are the necessity to develop a security plan based on the phase strategies, activate the intelligence efforts, provide the necessary funds for this plan, as well as the formation of a unbiased National Bloc to keep the country and to achieve civil peace, through the activation of judiciary and finding an agreement to stop Iraqi bloodshed, pointing out that this requires bold decisions in the most critical moments in modern Iraq history. His Eminence stressed the provision of services as the most important demand of Iraqi people after the elimination of ISIS, concluding the list of priorities by listing anti-corruption efforts and to address erroneous laws and regulations.

His Eminence stressed the need for Iraq\'s regional openness, introducing the world to Iraq’s experience and capability confronting the terrorism of ISIS, indicating the importance of communicating to correct the wrong image created about Iraq reality.

His Eminence reiterated his call to conduct parliamentary and local elections at the same time to compress expenses, explaining his thoughts to solve this issue in two opinions, firstly, reducing one year from the tenure of the Iraqi House of Representatives or divide this year between the tenure of parliament and provincial councils in the sense of foreword local governments for six months and decreasing the tenure of parliament six months, at which both electoral practices are conducted simultaneously to decrease the expenses and mitigate political debate, pointing to the necessity of reducing the number of members at provincial councils between ten and twenty members.

In respect of popular forces, Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim indicated the importance of maintaining the popular forces under the flag of Iraq and adherence to the culture of the popular forces, benefiting from the expertise and capabilities, asking who are trying to obstruct the participation of the popular forces in the battle of Mosul to think again, view the features of the current phase and the nature of the battle, that require rapid and sudden operation in large numbers without affecting the military operations sectors.