Shafaq News/ The Kurdish House, held Saturday, in cooperation with the Forum of Trustees for Strategic Studies, at the Foundation  Shafaq  of culture and media Hall, a seminar entitled "The federations and regions .. solution or problem?", Attended by a gathering of professionals, academics and administrators, and the public that have interests.

 

The seminar was opened by President of the Forum for Strategic Studies of Trustees Haider Alawda, who gave a speech in which he talked about the "failure" made in public education the big changes that took place after 2003, particularly with regard to the subject of federal and provincial.

"The topic was circulated among the political elites, while entrenched in the mind of the citizen negative concept of federalism has been to highlight the positive side," adding that "negative education to make a citizen's idea of negative placed provinces and even democracy."

Researcher Ahmed Nasser delivered a study entitled "The rationale for the establishment of federalism in Iraq," which he said "can not establish a federal unless we provide the right environment has and is the social base and the legal political dress and," adding, " The legal garment should not be loose hurting community character and not be narrow to prevent freedom of the people. "

He noted that "The more repression leads to increased loss of real opportunities for progress and undermine the foundations of proper co-existence of society and the search for a unified national identity and pure nonsense."

He focused on the economic rationale for federal, referring to the strong economic ties since ancient times between Kurdistan and the central and southern Iraq while the "weak links with the Turkish side and the Iranian side also discussed the rationale for the federal Geographic.

Member of the Baghdad Provincial Council Mohammed al-Rubaie spoke about the law of the provincial councils and governorates not organized province, which was released in 2008 being the first law on the subject and "raised a lot of controversy," he said, adding that members of the House of Representatives "carry out the instructions of their parties have seized control of the parties to the quotas of laws and not only on the chairs and the law began in one basket with the laws of another without seeing and auditing. "

He stressed that "adherence to federal laws is the power to hold the chair"

For his part the Researcher Joseph Hiti, talked about federalism in being "solved relations coordination replace dependency relationships or at least limit the scope of dependency relationships and solve law and replace the power of persuasion rather than matter."

He added: "It is the bases of pluralism in decision-making and examples hit on the U.S. federalism ".

At the end of the seminar were the interventions by the attendees and have been answering questions. Abdul Khaliq Zangana said in his speech, "People began to realize that the regions and federations are the solution to the problems of Iraq, the laws that were developed were supposed to adhere to the government and carried out, but we see the opposite because there is a tendency to retreat from articles of the Constitution and laws. "

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