“Blank check” from the World Bank to Ebadi and the recent clashes with al-Hakim’s demands
“Blank check” from the World Bank to Ebadi and the recent clashes with al-Hakim’s demands
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BAGHDAD / Hassan Shammari:
Iraqi official high-level, Sunday, revealed the recommendation of the US President and Secretary General of the United Nations to the Director of the World Bank to grant Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi “blank check” to help Iraq to overcome the financial crisis, as pointed out that al-Abadi clashed with the forces of Iraqi prominent among them the Supreme Council Islamic headed by Ammar al-Hakim, who ask him to resign if he wants to make a change “fundamental” for the formation of a government of technocrats.
The official said in remarks reported by the “Middle East” newspaper and seen by “Sky Press”, “The financial crisis that seem stifling to the extent that it began to threaten employees’ salaries are no longer a major concern for Ebadi after receiving assurances from the United States and the World Bank, which means not allowing Iraq’s collapse, especially as the talks held by the al-Abadi in Vienna finally were successful to the extent that it received assurances Iraq to grant soft loans to overcome the crisis, the collapse of oil. ”
He added that “the World Bank Director and on the recommendation of US President Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was ready to give him a blank check, which encouraged al-Abadi to begin steps seemed confident for him and profitable for the adversaries and partners.
He suggested Abadi make a cabinet reshuffle to appoint ministers of technocrats at a time when the government faces major economic problems because of low oil prices and the war on «Daash».
But prominent political forces, including the Shia, such as the Islamic Supreme Council headed by Ammar al-Hakim, and the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr demanded the change is also covered, if the change on the basis of technocrats and not quotas
It is noteworthy that al-Abadi reiterated Monday his determination to make a cabinet reshuffle «fundamental comprehensive», warning that ignoring the political blocs and the parliament so it means getting into conflict with them. Abadi also expressed his willingness to offer his resignation if the change exhaustive.
And connecting the Iraqi official among these shifts in attitude and what appeared «Harsha» powerful by Abadi to his opponents and his partners when he announced his intention to make a change «substantial», which seemed such a single unfamiliar in the Dictionary of political deal between the sons of the Iraqi political class, this deal based on quotas.
Iraqi official say in this regard that «Abadi, who succeeded in appointing a new director of the National Intelligence Service, one of the most dangerous devices accepted American figure, and has good relations with the Kurds and Sunnis, Mustafa Kazmi outside the contexts of quotas, wanting to be completed through the new ministerial cabin that confused political partners who are in a critical angle in terms of the high ceiling of the demands of the Abadi
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