Austerity threatens to postpone the National Guard to the next year

Austerity threatens to postpone the National Guard to the next year and the amendments with which the central government

01/17/2015 (00:01 pm)

BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah

Congress expected the year, to postpone the adoption of the Law of the National Guard to the next year due to the lack of adequate financial allocations, unless some provisions popular crowd Switch to the National Guard when the final approval.
MPs revealed by the introduction of many changes to the draft law, which now includes 30 articles only, noting that the amendments so far, led to the linking of the National Guard of the central government, and determine outfitted with light and medium weapons only.
The national paper under which the government was formed Abadi included the formation of the National Guard as a generic system for the army and the police have specific tasks aimed at making it the foundation column in the security file management in the provinces that this is prescribed by law in duration than three months.
She says the victory of al-Jubouri, an MP for the Union of Iraqi forces, in an interview with the “long”, that “the competent security committee in the Chancellery of the National Security ended the recent amendments to the draft National Guard Law and submitted to the Cabinet for approval,” indicating that “the new draft contains 30 articles After making some changes and amendments to delete and add-ons. ”
Jubouri and adds that “the adjustments made to the draft law of the National Guard has over voting mechanism within the security committee, which includes representatives of all the components, according to the proportion of parliamentary seats.”
On the main adjustments made to the draft, describes the powers union member, said “the most prominent materials that have been modified in the draft law, the question of arming the National Guard and the powers of management and representation of each province,” noting that “the reinforcement will be limited to medium and light of all kinds and shapes and sizes weapons “.
Draws member bloc united, led by Osama Najafi, said that “the National Guard link, according to the latest amendments, will be the central government in terms of management and arming and salaries and all the logistics affairs.” She says that “the proportion of representation of each province, in the National Guard, which will be created, will be around only 3%.”
Expects MP for Nineveh province said “facing ratio provincial representation in the National Guard difficulty tuned in because of the lack of a census,” noting that “mixed need the provinces to conduct a census of each component and the doctrine of the range in which order the distribution ratios among them fairly.”
Attributes the victory MP Jubouri reasons for delay in the adoption of the National Guard law within the government to “pressure exerted by the National Alliance on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi,” and found that “the delay hindered the resolution of the battle cleansing Mosul and the rest of the provinces of control Daash.”
And on the financial allocations for the project of the National Guard’s budget law in 2015, al-Jubouri confirms “does not exist for any of equipping and arming of the National Guard financial allocations and functional scores,” and suggested “to postpone the adoption of the National Guard to the 2016 Act.”
The Cabinet began, at its first meeting, which was held last September, to prepare a draft law for the establishment of National Guard troops and organize volunteers from the popular crowd in a maximum period of two weeks, through a committee that includes military and legal experts.
In the same context, Mohammed al-Karbouli, a member of the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense, “The Chancellery of the National Security informed Week representative of the Union of Iraqi forces in supervising the security committee of the National Guard before the law as the law will be sent to the Council of Ministers,” he says.
The Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and the provinces Ahmed al-Jubouri, confirmed Monday that the draft law will reach the National Guard Cabinet within two weeks for a vote, “expected adoption of the law during a period not exceeding three months.
Karbouli says, “long”, that “the ministers Iraqi Forces Union excluded the arrival of a draft law of the National Guard to the Chancellery of the Security Council of Ministers,” stressing that “the draft law rotates inside a closed office in the chancellery.”
MP for Anbar province and is expected to “be thrown Guard law for debate in the Council of Ministers after the adoption of the budget to be postponed to next year due to the lack of sufficient financial allocations,” revealing “the existence of ongoing negotiations between the political blocs to convert allocated to popular mobilization of financial amounts to the National Guard “.
The MP pointed out that Mohammed Karbouli “popular crowd in the Office of the Prime Minister funds of up to approximately $ 1.8 billion and accommodate 150 thousand degrees and careers monthly up to 800 000 dinars for each volunteer a salary.”
Karbouli said that “the idea of ​​the establishment of the National Guard law raised by the United States on Baghdad in the formation of the current government negotiations during the meetings that took place in the time between the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs.”

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