Jubouri: The government transferred 50% of its powers to the provinces
18:34 27/04/2015
Tomorrow Press / Karbala: The Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Ahmed al-Jubouri, on Monday, the central government has transferred about 50% of the powers of the ministries to the provinces, while the political blocs accused of wanting to limit the ministry chair for personal interests and partisan and has no loyalty to the homeland. Jubouri said a number of ways media, including “Tomorrow Press”, on the sidelines of the supreme body of a coordination meeting between the governorates not organized province, which was held in the city of Karbala that “the government before the decentralization project was announced by a serious and hard to apply it according to the law,” noting that “we have done about 50 percent of the transfer of powers It is run is not a little but it is not enough and there are parties not like the success of the state. ” He added that “there are political blocs hinder the transfer of powers of the ministries to local governments and the biggest problem facing the decentralization”, accusing some of the political blocs to “it wants to limit the ministry chair of the interests of personal and partisan and has no loyalty to the homeland.” He explained Jubouri that “the state embarrassing day for lack of financial liquidity and the duty of the provincial cooperation for resolving this crisis,” noting that “the Iraqi provinces demanded a meeting today to cancel the decision 62 that halted the transfer of powers has been the prime minister pledged to offer in the next cabinet meeting.”
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4/27/2015 12:10
The prime minister Haider al-Abadi, on Monday, that the transfer of powers to the provinces do not drop him, noting that the government is proceeding with this experiment.
Abadi said in a conference attended by the number of conservatives in Karbala that “the transfer of the powers of some ministries to the provinces do not drop it.”
Abadi said that “moving on the transfer of this experiment the government,” stressing the need to “grant the provinces sufficient powers to manage their affairs.”
The Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and the provinces Ahmed al-Jubouri, in January 2015 for the direct transfer of powers of the ministries to the provinces, “he said, adding that he was to begin the transfer of powers and the Ministry of Municipalities.
The Act 21 of 2008 for provincial councils issued by the House of Representatives that the provincial regulatory and supervisory powers over all ministries and institutions except the courts, universities and the military.
The suffering of the Iraqi provinces, including the capital, Baghdad, since several years, especially after the events of 2003, the major problems on the service level, and comes in Ras services unlocked, electricity, drinking water, sanitation, traffic congestion and other
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