• Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim: postponing parliament elections is an unnegotiable and undiscussable red line

    2017/ 05 /19 

    Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim: postponing parliament elections is an unnegotiable and undiscussable red line

    Head of the National Iraqi Alliance, Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, counted the postpone of parliament elections an unnegotiable and undiscussable red line, reiterated his call for a regional summit between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq to frankly and truthfully discuss all issues of conflict.

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    This took place during the emissaries conference held in Holy Najaf, his eminence stressed that the real victory is to eliminate the internal enemy, not external enemy, and the internal enemy is chaos and weak obedience to law, pointed out that the project of building the state will not be accomplished only if we all see that obedience to law is a basic priority and a national mission, war should be raised on chaos and violation to law starting from the most important segment in the country and society, namely the fighters, whether they are army or police or popular mobilization forces.

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    His eminence emphasized on the role of emissaries to distinguish intruders and who are unjustly attributed as true fighters from those whom had sacrificed their lives to protect the homeland and defend the people, by educating people about the importance of oblige to law and that the religious fighter is the committed fighter.

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    Head of the National Iraqi Alliance stressed the importance of combating corruption as terrorism is fought with all resources, corruption is a more dangerous and more vicious terrorism, because it breaks morale and distort trust among the people of society.\"

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    His eminence promised not to tolerate corruption and corrupters, indicating that \"all those who are proved to be guilty of act will receive his punishment without any political or moral considerations, things had reached to dangerous levels and is threatening the credibility of community and its confidence, and the reason is that some corrupters wore clothing of religion, piety and patriotism and became tools of righteousness demolition .. and corrupters have been feeling safe from punishment so they continue their corruption without restraints.”

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    Regarding the national settlement, His eminence stated, \"We believe that the national settlement must be launched one day and for all in our Iraqi society if we want to ensure harmony and stability in society ... wars and crises create wounds, autocratic regimes sow seeds of division and discrimination between the sons of one nation, and the nascent democratic regimes also unintentionally provoke sectarian and ethnical conflict due to lack of experience and reluctance to manage the complexities of free democratic action .. the post-Daesh Iraq should not live through the political and social vacuum and must launch a real project for an Iraq wide national settlement, a deep project to heal all wounds and provide solutions to difficult problems and also offers courageous resolution for mistakes that were committed intentionally or unintentionally in the previous phase ...

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    His eminence indicated \" often the steps taken are correct, but their timing is wrong, the national settlement is a big and correct step at the right time. It is the mission of the political and societal powers and state institutions, and we are persistent and strongly work for its implementation despite of any pressure or disruption we face.

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    Head of the National Iraqi Alliance considered the elections the basis of the political process and evidence of its activeness and permanence and it is necessary to perform the elections on time, no matter what the circumstances and without delay or procrastination, declared refusing postponement of the parliament elections even for one day, because it is the biggest guarantee in preserving the spirit of democracy and protect it from the ghost of constitutional vacuum, indicating \"We have accepted the postponement of local elections because of the critical circumstances, but the postponement of the parliament elections is an unnegotiable and undiscussable red line.\"

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    His eminence reiterated his call to hold a regional summit between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq, and to discuss all issues of dispute frankly and honestly, and to identify points of convergence and divergence, and agree on respect for areas and determine the minimum level of political rules of engagement between the axis countries in the region.