Abadi edged out of prime minister’s race but real change in Iraq remains remote
Abadi: Vote the votes of deputies either to threaten or blackmail or buy votes

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that portraying MPs in a certain direction is aimed at threatening, blackmailing or buying votes.
"Sometimes we put very high standards on the prime minister's character, but in the end we bring a character with much lower standards," Abadi told a weekly news conference on Tuesday.
He added: "The way to demolish what others have built is for a state and the work must be complementary to the other." He stressed "the need for more understanding in naming the prime minister, the citizen wants services and does not want political disputes."

"The parliament is a place for parties and there is certainly a dispute in it and what happened there were parties that guarantee the vote of deputies in a certain direction and in our turn we ask the interest of portraying the votes of deputies, they are either to threaten or blackmail or buy," Abadi said. Voices ".
He called Abadi "Parliament in the investigation and the involvement of the Prosecutor," stressing that "

And on the crisis of drinking water in the province of Basra, the Prime Minister surprised him, "What happened in Basra with the presence of large forces, and began to lift the abuses and we investigate with some names in the delay in water projects and commissioned us Integrity Commission to investigate."
He pointed out that "a delegation of integrity in Basra continue its work and provide us with the reasons for the delay, as well as in the work of the ports and the removal of control of parties and militias."
"We are not against the parties, but against the transformation of the government into partisan action," he said.
He stressed that "the situation in Basra will change for the better" stressing that "we do not incite the demonstrations, but we are happy to have a motivational side to the local governments and we wish to find officials in the field and not fleeing the situation and Masculism, as happened in Basra, which exploited some within 30 hours and burned and attacks in the province "Expressing" surprised by the disruption of water projects in Basra and solved with small amounts, "calling" officials to the lack of courtesy in the interest of the people. "
"We are not afraid of plots whatever their agenda and direction and we will assume all responsibility and exercise all the powers in the state for the last day of the life of this government."
And preparations for the plan to visit the tenth of Muharram al-Haram, Abadi said "

On the budget for next year, he said, "We proposed to the parliament to form a financial committee urgently to accelerate the study and discussion of the budget of 2019, which we hope to approve before the end of this year."

He added that "the Council of Ministers studied today the draft budget law," stressing "to set a specific price of oil in the budget to avoid any surprises in the world markets and to determine this price according to technical standards and we want to allocate the bulk of reconstruction and services and job creation."

He pointed out that "the Iraqi state since its establishment has problems and today we have 4 million employees and there is slack state and bureaucracy," noting that "the increase in population since 2003 was 40%, but the increase in staff was not reflected on the activity of the state, but disabled.

"We need water reservoirs, not dams. Today we are suffering from drought. We need a new vision in storage, including the closed water tracks, which need billions of dollars and we will look at them," he said.

"We intend these tracks to build closed water pipes to prevent evaporation or overflow." Again, "the need for" a real water policy, part of which is the amount of stock and the calculation of the need to build on the worst case. We have a review of you and I am not satisfied with all the water plans that have been developed and the method of control and drainage "
Abadi warned of" the danger of lack of green spaces in the public squares and even homes as it will threaten future generations diseases, "calling for" the reconstruction of plans in the construction and population and the requirement of a green space to build housing "

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