Iraqi PM to Submit Five New Ministerial Nominees: MP

ERBIL – Iraqi PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi will submit five new candidates to the parliament for the remaining ministerial posts, a lawmaker revealed on Saturday.

Badir al-Ziyadi, an MP from Sa’eroun Alliance led by the Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, told BasNews that Abdul-Mahdi wants to present five new nominees “as he knows well that the MPs will not approve the current ones.”

“This week will be decisive for concluding the new cabinet before the end of this year,” al-Ziyadi said.

The Council of Representatives is expected to hold a session on Sunday in hopes of voting on the five nominees and fill the remaining ministerial posts.

Source: Basnews.com

URGENT The House of Representatives holds its meeting tomorrow and its schedule is free from completing the cabinet

During a meeting with the Iraqi News Agency .. Teaching from the accounting department proposes to postpone the draft delete zeros

Assistant Professor Dr. Safwan Qusay Abdul Halim, said that the current economic situation does not allow the implementation of the project to delete zeros from the currency, attributed to the unstable conditions in the Middle East and the possibility of the existence of illegal local currencies looking for a way to enter the domestic banking system.

Abdul-Halim said in a statement to the Iraqi National News Agency “Nina” The Iraqi Central Bank is trying to restore confidence in the Iraqi currency and enter into the international currency market and facilitate the task of calculations by deleting zeros, and pointed out that the project can cause confusion in monetary policy and the value of the Iraqi dinar.

Therefore, the procedure to delete zeros is a correct measure, but the current government to choose the appropriate time to replace the currency and transparent and subject to the highest degree of control was the governor of the Central Bank Ali Alaq announced earlier in a press statement that currencies of small categories may prompt citizens to bid farewell to banks for difficulty to store As the central bank has a future plan to restructure the Iraqi currency, including the deletion of zeros.

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BGG ~ Before anyone gets too upset, I would advise some cautious perspective when reviewing this article… This is a University OP ED piece based around an interview given by an associate professor of accounting. The more important issue is; this is apparently a current topic of KEEN interest right now. NICE!!

Hashemi: Abdul Mahdi did not succeed!!

BAGHDAD / The expert on Iraqi political affairs, Wathiq al-Hashemi, said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi did not succeed in his work, while Abdul Mahdi made promises he could not implement.

Al-Hashemi, for “Iraq’s News”, that “Abdul-Mahdi signed amid political differences, and became constrained by, he is afraid to satisfy the Alliance reform, so as not to anger the coalition of construction, or the opposite way, he became a prisoner of political blocs, In his work”.

“He has made many promises to achieve, and so far has not achieved anything, despite the passage of time on the promises, and could not achieve if there is a political consensus, it came through consensus.”

Rahim al-Darraji, head of the Kaffah group, said earlier Monday that Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi is a captive of the political forces, noting that Abdul Mahdi is not envied. Finished

Source: Faceiraq.net

Supreme judicial council of Iraq reactivates article 140 of the constitution regarding disputed territories

A Kurd reads a writing an a wall says “ISIS implemented article 140” which indicates the return of Kurdish Peshmargas to disputed territories in 2014

The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq has requested the reactivation of article 140 of the constitution which calls for normalization of the situation in territories disputed by the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan regional government.

According to officials of the committee overseeing the implementation of the article, the council informed the Kirkuk Court of Appeal about its decision earlier this week, which they believe will prevent the return of Arab families brought from southern Iraq and were resettled in Kirkuk during the rule of the former Ba’ath regime in the 1970s.

The families returned to their areas of origin after receiving compensations according to article 140, but there were attempts to bring them back in the last three months.

According to the judicial council’s decision Arab settlers no longer can file complaints against Kurdish farmers concerning ownership claims of agricultural lands

Barzan Sheikh Ghazi, head of the committee overseeing the implementation of article 140 in Daquq told (KirkukNow), “According to the Supreme Judicial Council’s decision Arab settlers no longer can file complaints against Kurdish farmers concerning ownership claims of agricultural lands.”

Meanwhile, Kakarash Sidiq head of the committee in Kirkuk province, regarding the council’s new decision said, “the decision will be of great benefit for Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk province as the courts will no longer consider the complaints of the Arab settlers and they were not b able to renew their leases because the article does not allow this.”

According to Kurdish officials, hundreds of hectares of agricultural land were confiscated from Kurdish farmers and were given to Arab families whom the former regime brought from other Iraqi provinces in the form of leases.

The Supreme Judicial Council’s decision was issued after Kurdish farmers protested decisions by the acting governor of Kirkuk in the last three months aimed to facilitate the return of Arab settlers to Kirkuk villages.

Source: Kirkuknow.com

The disclosure of the “most dangerous secret” relates to the concealment of looted Iraqi funds

While there is talk of chasing spoilers and siphoning off public money without success for years, many succeed in evading punishment and enjoying their huge wealth out of sight in many ways, while leaving great scars in Iraqi society.

They often followed crooked ways away from the eyes of censorship. Many banks in Europe and elsewhere turned to safe haven for their money, not eager to pursue or even hunt for them.

“You know what is the most dangerous secret in Iraq,” so wondered my Iraqi Encyclopaedia Ali al-Nashmi in a comment on his page on the social networking site Facebook and was seen by “Trend Press.”

“I have been looking for five years in Europe, which is the banks where corrupt and siphoned off Iraqi politicians have found their money in the banks of the smallest country in the world, a state of Lechsteinstein, a very small emirate between Switzerland and Austria on the Alps, “Noting that” this country the number of our souls is only 30 thousand people and an area of 160 kilometers and the whole economy is based on the existence of banks, especially tax evasion and also the money of looting and corrupt, especially third world countries. ”

Al-Nashmi pointed out that “these banks are not subject to American and European financial control, although two years ago they are providing data on their customers to the European Union, but Europe does not believe what is provided to them, so these banks are a breeding ground for corruption,” noting that “the number of companies registered within its bank The Central (LGT) is 180 thousand companies, while the number of souls 30 thousand people. ”

Al-Nashmi pointed out that “the weight of the funds deposited with it more than the weight of all its population, although the population does not equal half the population of any sector in Sadr City,” explaining that “the majority of depositors of Iraqis, and very strange is that this emirate does not ask about the source of money , Only when an Iraqi applicant comes, they ask for a certificate from three former depositors that natural money, imagine that the corrupt bank in the world is afraid of the reputation of the corruption of some Iraqis, especially politicians.

Al-Nashmi quoted girls working in these banks as saying that “the Iraqis are now more than depositors in our banks because they know that there is no American surveillance or accountability and fear of any development that will result in the search for their money because Swiss banks are subject to international censorship. “The information has been repeated in front of me for five years, so they told me about two former Iraqi ministers in very, very, very, very important ministries.”

Al-Nashmi stressed, “Imagine how much we are cut off. In short, brothers, we are separated, and there are very serious secrets in this matter, but I know that it is my national duty to pose this very serious issue. We must frighten and besiege the thieves. If we can not stop them, Arbhm and reveal their methods. ”

“There are countries with taxes and controls, but there are countries with less taxes and less control, so they are taking refuge,” said economic expert Laith Mohamed Rida, an economist at Al-Tijah Press. “There are people looking for safe countries in terms of taxes.” to her.

Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced on Wednesday (November 21, 2018) his intention to put forward the project “Fighting corruption,” pointing out that this project will put points on the letters.

Transparency International classifies Iraq as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but successive Iraqi governments often criticize the organization’s reports on corruption and consider it inaccurate and based on information received through local and foreign companies failed to implement service projects in Iraq.

Source: Iraaqi.com

Sadr dismantles Maliki’s influence in ministries and provinces

BAGHDAD – Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is leading an organized campaign to oust the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, who served as prime minister for two consecutive terms between 2006 and 2014 in state facilities.

Sadr’s keenness that Maliki’s coalition will not get any ministry in the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi until now, despite achieving 25 parliamentary seats during the general elections in May.

Observers say that the leader of the Sadrist movement is in a position to dismantle the influence of his arch-rival Maliki, especially as the Dawa Party is no longer in the forefront, has lost its influence on the government because of the conflict between the wings; the first represented by Maliki, and the second led by former Prime Minister Haider Abadi.

On Wednesday, Sadr’s political team succeeded in ousting Maliki’s governor from Baghdad and installing a pro-Sadr governor. Sadr is also depriving Maliki’s coalition of the governor of Basra, Iraq’s economic capital, where the conflict is raging.

Political sources told the “Arabs” that “Sadr told his ally in the reform alliance, Ammar al-Hakim, that he is ready to support any candidate proposed for the post of governor of Basra.”

The current governor of Basra, Asaad al-Eidani, one of the candidates of the list of former Prime Minister Haider Abadi during the May elections, but broke away after winning a parliamentary seat and joined the alliance building close to Iran, which includes Maliki’s coalition and the Badr Organization led by Hadi al-Amiri and Asaab Ahl al-Haq led by Qais Khazali.

The sources said that “Sadr agreed with Hakim to prevent Maliki’s coalition to reach the post of governor in Baghdad and Basra,” explaining that “the reform coalition can now provide the required majority in the Basra provincial council, to pass a candidate for Hakim to the post of governor.”

Hakim strongly supported the delivery of Sadr’s candidate to the post of governor of Baghdad, after Maliki’s coalition tried to block the vote on Wednesday.

The sources said that al-Sadr stipulated that Abdul-Mahdi, in support of the post of prime minister, to implement some demands for full waiver of the maturity of the Sadrist bloc in his ministerial cabinet, and to give him the freedom to choose ministers, including the removal of a number of officers loyal to the owners of sensitive positions in the Ministries of Defense and Interior. This decision was indeed one of the first actions carried out by the Prime Minister after taking office.

Although he stepped down as prime minister more than four years ago, Maliki’s influence remains strong in some Iraqi state institutions.

Maliki’s career has seen the installation of thousands of employees loyal to him in high and intermediate grades in various ministries, institutions and government departments. The term “deep state” is commonly used in political circles, referring to members of the Dawa party who support Maliki, who control the pillars of the government and its vital joints, even after stepping down.

Sadr is pressing Abdul Mahdi to liquidate this influence in one of his most prominent demands in forming a government.

Leaders of Sadr’s reformist alliance warn that the “deep state” loyal to al-Maliki could thwart Abdul Mahdi’s government as it tried with the Abbadi government and succeeded in some of the joints.

Maliki is no longer at the political level, Iran’s most important ally in Iraq, after the brightness of the star Hadi al-Amiri, led by the Fatah Alliance, the second Shiite political force, after the Sadrist bloc, in the Iraqi parliament.

Observers say that “Maliki, will not enjoy the level of Iranian support, which was obtained previously, in the presence of other Iraqi parties, can meet the Iranian desires in Iraq.”

Observers do not rule out that this campaign to eliminate the influence of al-Maliki is the introduction of political exclusion and may be referred to the judiciary.

Among the actions that Maliki may worry a lot, and dragged him to justice, the Iraqi parliament approved the formation of a committee to investigate the events of the fall of the city of Mosul in 2014.

Political circles speculate that this committee may lead to the conviction of al-Maliki, who was prime minister that year, and issued strange orders to withdraw military units in front of the advance elements of an organization calling for the city of Mosul, the summer of 2014.

Iraqi politicians say the appointment of Osama al-Nujaifi, a veteran politician from Mosul and stubborn opponent of al-Maliki, to head this investigative committee was “no accident.”

The Arabs: Rawabetcenter.com

Settlement of hundreds of billions between Kurdistan and Baghdad

The Central Bank announced on Thursday a banking settlement between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

“According to the joint efforts between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Central Bank of Iraq, a settlement was made to the credit bank balances open at the branches of the Central Bank in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah,” he said in a statement.

He added that “the payment of more than (190) billion dinars during the month of December 2018 in addition to the previous repayments, which exceeded (380) billion dinars, where the total paid for the date of more than (570) billion dinars, and the installment of the remaining amounts on the number of installments “He said.

He said that “the above arrangements show the seriousness of the administration in the Kurdistan Region and the Central Bank of Iraq to settle this issue to facilitate banking work in the region and enhance reliability in the banking system.”

Read More: Shafaaq.com

Report on the “deep state” in Iraq: an introduction to the exclusion of al-Maliki from the political scene

“Sadr is working to eliminate the influence of the leader of the rule of law”

Baghdad – Nas: An Iraqi newspaper said on Friday that “the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr,” leading “an organized campaign to liquidate the influence of the leader of a coalition of law Nuri al-Maliki, who served as prime minister two consecutive cycles between 2006 and 2014, in the facilities of the state,” referring to the prevalence of the term ” Deep state “in Iraqi political circles.

The newspaper “Al Arab” reported today (14 December 2018), “Nas”, in which he said that Sadr was keen on “Maliki’s coalition does not get any ministry in the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi so far, despite achieving 25 parliamentary seats During the general elections last May. ”

“The leader of the Sadrist movement is in a position to dismantle the influence of his arch-rival Maliki, especially as the Dawa Party is no longer in the forefront, and has lost its influence on the government because of the conflict between its wings; the first represented by Maliki, and the second led by former Prime Minister Haidar Abadi. ”

The newspaper says that “the political team of the Sadr,” succeeded on Wednesday, “to overthrow Maliki’s governor of Baghdad from office, and the installation of a governor loyal to the Sadrists. Sadr is also working to deprive the Maliki coalition of getting the post of governor of Basra, Iraq’s economic capital, where the conflict is raging. ”

“Sadr told his ally in the reform coalition, Ammar al-Hakim, that he is ready to support any candidate he proposes for the post of governor of Basra, noting that” Sadr agreed with Hakim to prevent Maliki’s coalition to reach the post of governor in Baghdad and Basra. ” “The reform coalition can now provide the necessary majority in the Basra provincial council to pass a candidate for Hakim to the post of governor,” she said.

Maliki, who stepped down as prime minister more than four years ago, remains strong in some Iraqi state institutions, the paper said.

According to the newspaper, Maliki, appointed during his mandate between 2006 and 2014, “thousands of employees loyal to him in the high and middle grades in various ministries and institutions and government departments,” and says that the term “deep state”, common in the political circles, “in reference to members of the Dawa Party Pro-Maliki, who control the pillars of the government and its vital joints, even after stepping down from office. ”

The newspaper says that Sadr is “pressing” Ali Abdul Mahdi to “liquidate this influence in one of his most prominent demands in the formation of the government,” adding that leaders of the reform alliance, which is sponsored by Sadr, warn that “the deep state loyal to Maliki, can thwart the government of Abdul Mahdi as I tried with the government of Abbadi and succeeded in some joints. ”

The newspaper quoted observers that they do not rule out “that this campaign to liquidate the influence of al-Maliki is the introduction of political exclusion and may be referred to the judiciary.”

Keywords: Nasnews.com

Iraq is one of the world’s richest countries

The governor of the Central Bank, the size of the Iraqi reserve of hard currency up to 60 billion dollars, and covers 170% of the size of the mass of the local currency, the governor said in an interview published (Alsumaria News) The size of the reserve currency of foreign currency is always measured to the size of mass Especially since the IMF recently developed a new standard which added the ability of the state to cover trade and debt repayment. He pointed out that the size of the cash mass is 44 trillion dinars and Iraq is fourth in the ownership of US Treasury bonds and The reserve in the foreign currency reserve, and described the reserves of the Iraqi Central Bank of foreign currency as very comfortable within international classifications and is ahead of other countries, compared to the mass of cash offered by the local currency, and said the reserve is close to 60 billion dollars, so the Arab Monetary Fund considers Iraq from Countries.

On the issue of the currency of the category of 100 thousand dinars, he said that these ideas are traded by the Central Bank, but at the present time pending, pointing out that there is a trend in some countries to reduce the categories of currencies so as not to be stored or counterfeited, the currencies of small groups may prompt the citizen to bid farewell to banks to difficulty The Central Bank has a future plan to restructure the Iraqi currency, including the deletion of zeros, but this plan needs to take deliberate steps and a stable situation fully so as not to be exploited in the work of fraud and others, and announced the Central Bank of Iraq on July 12 this year Iraq has 89 tons A gold.

Is not it important in the statements and conversations is to mention the figures, but the important is to analyze and derive the data and results to be clear to all, is there a real need for the large cash bloc amounting to 44 trillion Iraqi dinars and in many cases if a large proportion of them hidden and outside the circulation and did not constitute deposits from them in banks more From 10%, and the large cash mass cost large amounts of money to print and transfer to Iraq because it is printed in a European country and every paper card has the cost of paper and printing, especially as our currency is printed in a special paper and forms and colors and sizes of multiple and contain many signs of safety, And because they are banknotes are vulnerable to damage in the preservation and circulation so that the need to reprint large quantities of them during the periods of time and this substitution is fraught with a lot of hearsay and signals similar to what is currently happening for 7 billion dinars, which is under investigation and investigation, we mean that the large cash mass is not Its connotation But it is perhaps a reflection of the failure and lack of confidence in the work of government and private banking because the citizen did not gain confidence from banking because of the lack of buildings and equipment and technologies and skills of working staff and delay in completing transactions so that the citizen may be in a waiting for the purpose of depositing cash, Not to mention the corruption and arbitrariness of the treatment of customers sometimes and the establishment of some private banks violations reflected on depositors and shareholders without taking firm action from the Iraqi Central, which has not taken decisive decisions towards banks and violation of 10 years ago, and depositors did not recover or We are concerned about the absence of the Deposit Protection Law, which we hear about, but it is still a wish. As the banks of many countries have switched to automatic payment systems through Visa Card, Master Card and ATM and ATM, our system is still dependent on clearing which may last for one week Or more as the validity of the breasts is claimed.

When talking about reserves of more than or less than $ 60 billion, one should not lose sight of the proportion of reserves of foreign loans and debt by sovereign or non-sovereign guarantees because the indebtedness is estimated at $ 120 billion or more of the kind not subject to Paris Club adjustments. If the reserves are compared with revenues Oil (in the case of stopping the export of God forbid) and debt service and Treasury remittances Vali When reserves will survive after addiction to the window selling the dollar in the Central Bank of Iraq, which exceeds 150 million dollars a day under the title of coverage of Iraq’s needs of goods and services, despite the wealth, Great sanctity The exchange rate, which does not change despite the variation that Iraq has experienced, and these prices currently amount to 120 thousand dinars per 100 dollars, although this figure is very far from the prices of the previous conversion (3 and 3) dollars per dinar and far from the prevailing prices (1184) dinars per dollar , And as some say if Iraq shared the fission is limited to
It is the right of every Iraqi to boast about the race’s possession of the gold reserves of 89 tons, which makes Iraq ahead in terms of gold reserves, and the reason for our motivation to boast is that gold as they say in the popular words (decoration and safe) in the sense that would appear Iraq with a view.

It is positive that Iraq is rich, but this richness is like a woman who is charming with her beauty and femininity but hiding inside her tons of pain, tragedy, despair and disappointment. What is the benefit of the large cash mass and the size of its reserves and the weight of gold and the saying of states that Iraq is overstating its reserves.

Every day he dies Hundreds and dozens of patients and the scarcity and loss of medicines and the high cost of health services and a million displaced people in the winter without shelter, food and clothing and the benefit of all this and one third of our people living under the poverty line and there are more than one million unemployed and non-oil sectors are 1% of the balance of payments and most sectors In agriculture, industry and semi-housing And there are a shortage of 4 million housing units and there are more than 2 million citizens rely on social welfare that does not provide the minimum requirements for living and usefulness, and some of the remaining education is destroyed and the spread of unemployment and addiction and cannabis and the number of those who stand in lines of alcohol, although many weaken those who go And the meaning of the presentation of these tragic cases (regrettable) is the need for the official to realize that the importance in his work and his words is not what he achieved for him and for the institution.

To boast about what it achieves for its people to ease and end their tragedies, and to say to the world what they say, including that we are the poorest country in the world because it is important that our people take what they deserve from the wealth that the Creator has given them. It is useless to come out in the calculations of the world when millions of bellies sleep from hunger.

Bassel Abbas Khudair

Source: Sotaliraq.com