Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan
The parties to the coordination framework are scrambling to control jobs in all aspects of the state, even those related to football!
Those affiliated with the Shiite alliance are trying to expand at the expense of the other with quotas, as nearly half a million jobs are scheduled to be added in the next budget, which is still faltering.
Factions are pressing to secure jobs for their members, and competition for governors is intensifying, while a minister in an important ministry is preparing to resign due to partisan interference in his work.
A Shiite politician reveals, in an interview with (Al-Mada), a series of crises within the coordination framework, due to the “crowding for jobs.”
It is likely that there will be 10,000 jobs, most of which will be available to the Shiite coalition in the event that Prime Minister Muhammad Al-Sudani decides to replace the positions, most of which are managed by proxy.
Only the orders that were canceled under the item of conducting business in the previous government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi were estimated at regarding 700 government orders, most of which are appointments to special grades.
In addition, the government intends, according to what the coordination framework says, to provide more than 450,000 jobs in the 2023 budget, which has not yet been approved, while the government had announced an increase in financing job salaries in the budget to 65 trillion dinars.
The politician, who asked not to be named, added, “Some factions want jobs for their members in the Hashd, which may exceed the 30,000 degrees allocated to those dismissed from the Commission.” And earlier, the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Faleh Al-Fayyad, announced that the canceled contracts in the crowd would be reinstated as soon as the funds were provided.
Al-Fayadh said in a televised statement: “The 30,000 of those whose contracts have been terminated will be returned in the event that the amount allocated to them is released.”
He added, “The crowd’s wounded and martyrs, and the duration of service will be the largest share of the return of those whose contracts have been terminated.”
Al-Fayyad pointed out, “There is hope that those with diplomas in the PMF will be transferred to a civil job following the adoption of a special law for them.”
The Popular Mobilization Forces has regarding 170,000 members, according to statistics released last year.
According to previous statements by the Assistant Chief of Staff of the Popular Mobilization Forces for Operations Affairs, Yasser Al-Issawi, “The number of the Popular Mobilization Forces is 169 thousand and 700 fighters from the various sects of Iraq, and this is the force in general.”
And Al-Issawi indicated that “the reserve cannot be calculated or measured. All the Iraqi people are a reserve, and so far we have received letters and delegations from all sects of Iraq, from the north to the south, wishing to join the fighters of the Hashd for free.”
The leader in the crowd indicated that “the number of wounded (the popular crowd) officially reached 27 thousand, and we have 85% of them still working in general, and most of the leaders are wounded and injured, including the chief of staff and operational leaders.”
Haider al-Abadi, the former prime minister, had tried to restructure the crowd and reduce their numbers to only 25,000, according to information leaked at the time, but he faced rejection from the crowd leaders.
Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the former prime minister, returned following that, with the support of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, to try to integrate the crowd with the rest of the security services, but he did not succeed.
Returning to the parties’ struggle over jobs, the well-informed politician says, “The competition over jobs has reached the point of trying to control the Football Association and replace Asaad Al-Eidani, the governor of Basra, in light of what is happening in the Gulf Cup.”
The politician stressed that “the coordination framework was preparing to deport Al-Eidani two weeks before the start of the Gulf championship, which began last week, but at the last moment the wings of the framework differed and the governor remained in his position.”
Two days ago, Al-Sudani had “withdrew the hand” of the governor of Diwaniyah, Zuhair Al-Shaalan, the candidate of State of Law, in the first replacement of a governor who was originally appointed since the first assumed the premiership.
Earlier, a member of a political bureau in the Euphrates Movement, which is led by the prime minister, confirmed to (Al-Mada) that “parties want shares outside the ministries.”
On the other hand, information was leaked that Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani had submitted his resignation to the prime minister, while the latter was waiting for an alternative to accept the resignation.
According to the leaks (which (Al-Mada) might not confirm), Abdul-Ghani, the State of Law candidate, complained regarding the interference of leaders from his party in the work of the ministry.
In addition, Muhammad al-Ziyadi, the representative of the coordination framework, said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that “the prime minister works freely in managing the state despite the pressures, the latest of which was what happened in the media network.”
Al-Sudani had decided to stop orders from the network’s secretariat council to dismiss the current head of the network, Nabil Jassem, and to appoint a replacement for him, a figure close to the factions.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister recommended to Parliament to terminate the work of the Network’s Board of Trustees, following the recent crisis between the two parties.
Al-Ziyadi considered that “Al-Sudani’s refusal of the decision of the Board of Trustees, represented by several parties, means that the former wants to impose his vision and method of governance.”
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