Multiple crises: Iraq, to where
After the assumption Haider Abadi the Iraqi government for more than a year and half, no president has been able to manage the country’s crises like the security crisis noting that the state of fighting Against ISIS “Daash” remains constant in Iraq and the lack of security and stability situation in the city of Baghdad and the continued kidnappings and killings and aggressions practiced by the elements of the armed militias linked to some of the staff of power in Baghdad. As for the economic crisis , Iraq have suffered and still from the extremely bad economic situation as a result of the former Iraqi prime minister’s policies as this bad economy was inherited by the government of Haider al-Abadi, and what increased this bad state , which could be up to the level of economic collapse, is the decline in global oil prices , as the oil revenues is the financial resource that Iraq depends upon it to cover the expenses of the state.
With a loss of clear vision to deal with the aspirations and hopes of the Iraqi people and the weak state of the political agreement among the political parties and its disappearance and the accompanying lack of manifestations of health and education services and the continued looting of money and the haste of the waste of public money and the wealth of the country and the expansion of unemployment , poverty, want and need. Abadi failed to understand the Iraqi people’s problems and comprehend its aspirations and hopes and achieve its objectives in a free and dignified life with a complete omission to provide security and stability to the people which are the two key factors of making a free and dignified life and futuristic look to the Iraqi people and establish a new phase in its life.
with this tragic situation and administrative corruption , Abadi proceeded to find way and trends that will help him to correct the path of life in Iraq, and declared political and economic reforms and the exclusion and exemption of some officials of the government office and start with austerity policy in running the country and the recognition of the failures and cases of corruption and squandering of public money, which was notable attribute for the Maliki government . The adoption of the Iraqi budget for 2016, which carries the attributes and clarity of cases of austerity and the impact of lower oil prices and the weak and the deterioration of the financial returns of Iraq posing a great burden on the state and crisis management in the country and was an important obstacle in how to speed up reforms in Iraq, which led to the weakness of correct and accurate confrontation by the Government of Abadi and not being able to absorb the problems and lack of proper root solutions.
And the economic crisis experienced by Iraq began to enter a dangerous turn that is fueling much of the security and economic complexities that threatens the structure of the state and its survival accompanied by the resentment of supreme religious authority of the government for inability to cope with the Marja’ s ambitions in the reform, which led to the declaration of the Marja to stop talking on political matters until further notice, and thus , the government of Abadi missed the most important pillar for its continuing and support.
The domination and control owned by the armed militias in Iraq, which is closely linked to leaders of the politicians that are considered as a strike hands for them and protect them from being accountable for corruption cases that formed an extra burden to the government-Abbadi that may not be able to treat or face it due to its governance to the internal security situation , especially in areas of Baghdad areas and Abadi was unable to resolve the loyalty of military and security leaders in the military and security institutions, and that still have strong links and deep interests with those who govern Iraq before him.
In front of these challenges, Iraq is on the verge of social and security and economic disaster which threaten its social fabric and territorial integrity and increase the regional ambitions to control it or divide it , and this is clear from the policy pursued in Iraq and the government’s inability to cope with crises except through stylistic words and beautiful phrases that are useless , things in Iraq are going from bad to worse and the economic situation is low and a sharp drop in state revenues and the lack of smooth and clear in the distribution of salaries and the delay of financial payments to the Kurdistan region, which form the serious internal situation that threatens social security in the region starting from the popular demonstrations carried out by the large number of staff and security men and police in the province of Sulaymaniyah extended from areas of Penguin district to Klar district demanding financial entitlements and delayed monthly salaries that form an extension of the demonstrations in the central and southern Iraq In front of these multiple crises, Iraq is going to where.
Rawabet Research and Strategic Studies Center
