Baghdad / Nina / Newspapers published in Baghdad today, Thursday, the twenty-ninth of February, focused on the Ministry of Interior receiving the security file in the provinces, ways to resolve the political crisis in Kirkuk, and other issues, including the legislation of the right to access to information law.
Regarding the first topic, Al-Zawraa newspaper, which is published by the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, spoke about the Interior Ministry’s intention to take over the security file in five provinces during the current year, while confirming that the operations leaders will remain, but they will be outside the cities.
The ministry’s spokesman, Brigadier General Miqdad Miri, said in an interview with the newspaper: “The ministry’s readiness to take over the security file was completed to a very high degree as a result of government support, as a broad construction process took place that included all the formations of the Ministry of the Interior, starting from the Iraqi border and the border forces command to the intelligence agency. Forming intelligence cells in each governorate in preparation for this event.”
Merry added: “Also, the readiness rate of the police forces has risen to significant levels, and now they are ready to take over the security file in all regions of the country,” noting: “The Ministry of Interior worked on handing over the security file to the governorates seriously and was based on a broad evaluation process and re-institutionalization of each.” Ministry formations, which have succeeded in the recent period in taking over the security file in six governorates.”
He continued: “During this year, we will continue to take over the security file in the governorates, reaching 11 governorates,” stressing: “The leadership of Samarra operations is now fully under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior, and the next stage will be in Salah al-Din, Nineveh, and Anbar, where the important centers will be handed over to the Ministry of Interior with Operations leadership remains outside city centers.”
The spokesman explained: “The process of handing over the security file to the governorates is taking place successively according to a plan studied by the Ministry of Interior, and in the next stage it will include the governorates of Diyala, Anbar, Nineveh, Salah al-Din, and Karbala, with operational leaders remaining but outside the cities.”
Al-Sabah newspaper, which is published by the Iraqi Media Network, focused on the crisis of forming the local government in Kirkuk, and talked about four solutions to it.
In this regard, she said: “Kirkuk Provincial Council member Ahmed Ramzi presented four solutions to get out of the crisis in forming the local government in the governorate, while he confirmed that the beginning of next week will be the date for the meeting of the political blocs that represent Kirkuk with the Prime Minister.”
The newspaper quoted Ramzi as saying: “The political blocs need to set a time limit to solve these problems,” noting that “the longer the problems last, the more interference from political parties will occur, thus complicating the problem.”
He added: “The Provincial Council must hold the first session without choosing a governor, the head of the Provincial Council, or his deputy, and make it open, as happened in the Diyala Provincial Council, to make room for the political blocs to negotiate those positions for a month.”
He continued: “The winning political blocs – especially the Kurdish and Arab ones – must abandon stubbornness and insistence that the position of governor be part of their share and rely on the basic components as a criterion, and the main blocs must abandon reliance on the seats they obtained and the language of numbers, since the governorate witnessed… Three demographic changes (the first before 2003, the second after this date, and the third after 2017), as evidenced by the decision of the Federal Court of the Independent High Electoral Commission on the necessity of auditing voter records in the governorate during the parliamentary elections.”
He stressed that “the Turkmen proposal to rotate the position of governor and head of the provincial council between the main components still exists,” noting that “there are apparent and hidden problems that are postponed, including the Arab-Arab dispute in the event of the re-election of the current governor, in addition to a Kurdish-Kurdish dispute between the two main parties regarding Choosing an independent Kurdish person for this position, or he must be from the National Union Party.”
Regarding the non-participation of the Arab and Turkmen components in the first session, Ramzi hinted that: “There was a fear on the part of the two components to impose a fait accompli policy by choosing the governor, the head of the provincial council, and his deputy from one component due to a vacuum in the law, so the decision was to boycott the session until the negotiations were completed and an agreement was reached.” “.
As for Al-Zaman newspaper, it focused on the law on the right to access information, noting the confirmation of the head of the Integrity Commission, Judge Haider Hanoun, of the importance of legislating the law in achieving transparency and oversight of government performance.
Hanoun was quoted as saying during a dialogue forum: “The Authority has a role in preparing the draft law on the right to access information and insisting on its approval,” stressing its importance in establishing the rules of transparency and making information available to citizens and the media, with regard to the work of the executive authority, its projects, and the rate of completion therein, in addition to Its tenders, contracts and estimated costs.
He continued: “The role of civil society organizations and the media in supporting the legislation aimed at combating corruption launched by the Commission, the most important of which is the law on the right to access information, is important and necessary,” pointing to the Commission’s need for pressure groups to work with it to complete the legal system that combats corruption on the one hand, and to work On the other hand, to establish a culture of the rule of law and create a fair environment in society, by developing long-term programs that establish a society free of corruption.”/ End
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