Political and academicized researcher Maitham Al-Abadi said Wednesday that the Dhi Qar Provincial Council is two developments since Abdul-Baqi Al-Omari was sacked.
About institutions, bodies, and the election system, Al-Abadi added, “here Iraq is governed by the dialectics of a relationship between what is and what should be the case.” Treating data and manifestations of the state of institutions that require openness, objectivity, and the principle of equality—where everyone is equal before the law, and that no authority exists above the authority of the law—necessitates treatment with transparency and high professionalism, away from electoral entitlements and the requirements of quotas, this being the principle. However, what would have been a contrary situation demands the treatment of data and expressions of the status of institutions that require openness and candor?
“W.here do we make the sacking of Al-Omari, the chairman of the Dhi Qar Provincial Council?,” he asked. Does this rhyme with the happenings? Or rather should this be the case? Is this comparable to a political coup against the (legitimacy and legality) of the electoral entitlement and the reality of the quota system as Al-Omari said, or did political corruption and squandering public funds and monopolization of the position characterize a big majority of 11 representatives out of 18 and dismiss Al-Omari and subvert him at the headquarters of the police?
He said: “What is happening in the Dhi Qar Provincial Council does not go beyond two things: first, that is a fight for political posts. Al-Omari continued by stating that this is what is happening, crossing the validity and legality of the electoral entitlements, and violating the central strategic understandings and alliances that were imposed by the fact of the political structure following the political transformation after 2003. The second may be an attempt to show the institutional framework of the province, as well as the objectivity and transparency in dealing with the matters of political, financial, and administrative corruption and waste of public funds in ruling.
It is hence a dialectic of confrontation between what is and what ought to be; but in this dialectic, who finally wins? Both Arnold Toynbee’s theory and the theory of challenge and reaction help me to understand why the provincial council authorizes Al-Omari’s dismissal in this particular case. Every action has an effect; so, there is a stance and a course of action to correct any imbalance. They justify the sacking, which is an act of rebuttal that is leveled at Al-Omari, through a reference to his errors and examples of squandering public funds. The avowed intention has been to rectify acts committed by the provincial council and to eliminate cases of corruption.
About Al-Omari, he faces the facts of the political system and the conditions for political understandings and agreements, dividing the state jobs based on electoral entitlements and central strategic alliances. In this way, his departure becomes a sort of political coup or cut from the basic alliances and agreements between parties and blocs, and it will have serious consequences, perhaps not limited to the political peripheries of the governorate.
“Based on the reality of the imbalances that have plagued the political process in Iraq. the truth and truth of the political scene at the level of Dhi Qar Governorate, and of Iraq at large have another face, if not numerous face. Relative to one another none of them lack legitimacy though.He added, “The majority of the variables that affect events are relative facts that may provide complete or nearly complete mental perceptions of some political events and phenomena; but, they are all relatives and true at the same time.”
