After the reference sermon .. Liberation and aviation abound unprecedented crowds of demonstrators
After the reference sermon .. Liberation and aviation abound unprecedented crowds of demonstrators
2019-11-15 18:04
(Baghdad: Euphrates News) Tahrir Square and aviation and the streets branching from them in Baghdad crowds of demonstrators, after the position of the highest religious authority in Friday sermon today and support for the popular protests that began on the first of last October.
Massive and unprecedented numbers flocked to Tahrir Square and the surrounding areas after today’s sermon.
The sermon of the Supreme Religious Authority on Friday stressed the support of the protests and emphasize the commitment to its peacefulness and free from any form of violence, and condemn the attack on peaceful demonstrators to kill, injure, kidnap, intimidate or otherwise, as well as condemn the attack on security forces and government installations and private property . Anyone involved in any of these acts – which are forbidden by law and in violation of the law – must be prosecuted and held accountable in accordance with judicial procedures.
She explained that “the government derives its legitimacy – in non-authoritarian regimes and the like – from the people, and there is no one who gives it legitimacy other, and the will of the people is the result of the secret ballot if conducted fair and impartial, and therefore it is important to speed up the adoption of a fair law The election restores citizens’ confidence in the electoral process and is not biased to political parties and currents, and gives a real opportunity to change the forces that have ruled the country over the past years if the people want to change them and replace them with new faces, that the adoption of a law that does not give such an opportunity to voters will not be acceptable and useless. Decision of a new law for the Commission, which is entrusted with overseeing the conduct of elections, so as to document its impartiality and professionalism and enjoy credibility and popular acceptance.
The statement pointed out that “not long after the start of popular protests calling for reform, and the blood of the hundreds of martyrs and thousands of wounded and injured in this honorable road, but it has not been achieved so far on the ground of the demands of the protesters deserved attention, Especially in the field of prosecution of the corrupt senior and the recovery of looted money from them and the abolition of unfair privileges granted to certain groups at the expense of the rest of the people and away from quotas and favoritism in taking special grades and so on, which raises doubts about the ability or seriousness of the ruling political forces in the implementation Protesters even minimal, which is not in favor of confidence-building verification of something real reform on their hands.
She stressed that “the citizens did not go out to the demonstrations calling for reform in this unprecedented way and did not continue throughout this period with all the demanding price and grave sacrifices, but because they found no other way to get rid of the worsening corruption day after day, and the rampant rampant at all levels, With the agreement of the ruling powers – from various components – to make the homelands shared between each other and tolerate some of the corruption of others, until it reached unbearable limits, and it became impossible for a large proportion of citizens to obtain the minimum requirements of decent living despite the adequate financial resources of the country. .
If those who have the authority believe that they can evade the real merits of procrastination and procrastination, they are illusory. After these protests will not be the same as before, let them be aware.
The supreme authority pointed out that “the battle of reform waged by the Iraqi people is a national battle alone, and Iraqis bear the heavy burdens, and may not be allowed to interfere with any external party in any direction, although the corresponding external interventions portend great risks, turning the country into The arena of conflict and settling scores between international and regional powers in which the biggest loser is the people. ”
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