Earth News/ The President of the Republic, Barham Salih, affirmed today, Friday, that we have major entitlements that will not be accomplished and serious challenges that will only be faced by unity.
Saleh said in a tweet via Twitter, followed by Earth News, “My best wishes and blessings to our people on the occasion of the advent of the new Hijri year, which overlooks us and before us are great entitlements that will not be accomplished and serious challenges that will only be faced by unity of the ranks to protect our country and our people and to consolidate civil peace.” He added, “It is also necessary to work hard to meet the citizens’ requirements and aspirations for reform and services.”
Supporters of the head of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, flocked to Tahrir Square in the center of the capital, Baghdad.
Our correspondent said, “Al-Sadr’s supporters flocked to Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, to participate in the expected demonstration tomorrow.”
Al-Sadr’s supporters demonstrated last Wednesday, as they entered the dome of the House of Representatives and the Green Zone, rejecting the nomination of Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani for prime minister.
The Al-Fateh Alliance announced, today, Friday, its intention to approach the Sadrist movement to nominate some names for positions in Muhammad Shia’s government, indicating that the government will be attended by all. A member of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Ali Al-Fatlawi, said in an interview with (Baghdad Today), that “the ministerial cabinet of the expected government of Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani, all political parties will participate in it, and no political party will be marginalized.”
He added that “the framework intends to approach the Sadrist movement if it wishes to present candidates for some positions,” noting that “the expected Sudanese government of Muhammad Shia’a, will be a service government working to solve the crises that the Iraqi people have been suffering from over the past years, on top of which is the file of services, electricity and health.” As well as preserving the sovereignty of Iraq in a true manner in a way that preserves the prestige of Iraq and the Iraqis.
Shafaq News / A source in the Sadrist movement said today, Friday, that the supporters of the movement closed a number of offices of the al-Hikma movement in Baghdad due to the speech of its leader Ammar al-Hakim regarding the formation of the government and the Sadrist demonstrations, indicating that the closures will extend to other governorates.
The source, who asked not to be named, told Shafak News Agency, “The speech of the head of the Al-Hikma Movement, Ammar Al-Hakim, regarding the formation of the government and the demonstrations angered the Sadrist movement’s fans, as a number of Sadrist movement’s supporters directed the closure of a number of Al-Hikma Movement offices in a number of Baghdad districts, and it will also be closed.” their offices in the provinces.
The source added that the Sadrist movement called the demonstrations the Ashura reform revolution, as Muqtada al-Sadr spoke about in recent tweets.
The head of the Wisdom Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, confirmed, on Friday, that he would not stand idly by in front of the voices of sedition and plunge young people into chaos, calling at the same time to amend the election law, indicating that the selection of the Prime Minister by the forces of the coordination framework came with a high level of responsibility and denial. Self from the leaders of the first row and a number of leaders of the second row.
The head of the Wisdom Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, confirmed today, Friday, that the coordinating framework forces are sticking to their candidate for the position of Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani, despite the storming of the Sadrist movement to the headquarters of the Iraqi parliament yesterday, rejecting his candidacy.
Check Al-Hakim criticized the government security forces’ handling of the demonstrations by supporters of the Sadrist movement and allowing the demonstrators to enter the Green Zone.
Shafaq News/ The representative of the supreme religious authority, Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai, said on Friday that Imam Hussein wants to work on reform and avoid strife.
He added in a speech during the replacement of the banners of Imam Hussein and his brother Al-Abbas to mark the beginning of the month of Muharram, “Al-Hussein wants us to keep the clans away from fighting, and Karbala wants us to revive the duty of enjoining good and forbidding evil.”
He added, “Imam Hussein wants us to confront the cultural invasion that targets our identity, and he wants us to stay away from discrimination and fighting for worldly interests.”
The representative of the religious authority, Abdul-Mahdi Al-Karbalai, addressed the clans by saying, “Preserve your unity and live in peace and harmony.”
Shafaq News/ Dozens of supporters of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, flocked this evening, Friday, to Tahrir Square in the center of the capital, Baghdad.
Supporters of the Sadrist movement are seeking to prevent the parliament session on the presidential elections, the date of which has not yet been officially set.
And the security forces rushed to put concrete blocks at the beginning of the Jumhuriya Bridge to prevent the demonstrators from crossing into the Green Zone, where the parliament building is located.
The security forces also cut the Al-Sinak, Al-Ahrar and Al-Shuhada bridges that separate the two sides of Baghdad, Karkh and Rusafa.
On Wednesday, hundreds of al-Sadr’s supporters stormed the Iraqi parliament building in the Green Zone, in protest against the coordination framework’s move to form a government and push a candidate from the Dawa Party led by al-Maliki.
Al-Sadr had hinted on more than one occasion to stand in the way of forming a government in accordance with the principle of quotas adopted since 2003.
Al-Sadr withdrew from the political process, after months of tug-of-war with the coordination framework to form a government according to the majority principle, which he confronted in alliance with the Kurdistan Democratic Party and a Sunni political coalition that brought together Muhammad al-Halbousi and Khamis al-Khanjar.
Shafaq News/ On the occasion of the Islamic New Year, the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq will suspend working hours in official departments and institutions.
According to the Hijri calendar in which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia operates and on which most Islamic countries depend on religious occasions, tomorrow, Saturday, July 30, will be the first day of the Hijri year (1 Muharram) of the year 1444 AH.
According to the official holidays schedule of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the first of Muharram will be an official holiday on the occasion of the Islamic New Year.
The regional government excludes health institutions, evening counseling clinics, and security services from official holidays in order to provide the necessary services to citizens.
Samir Al-Nusairi, a consultant to the Iraqi Private Banks Association, confirmed in a televised speech that the central bank’s lending and financing initiatives have achieved their main objectives in stimulating the economy and revitalizing the economic cycle.
Al-Nusairi indicated, through the Iraq Studio program, which is shown by iNews channel, that the Central Bank allocated an amount of 18 trillion dinars to lend to small, medium, large, housing and renewable energy projects. Allocating 5 trillion dinars for each of them, and the implementation rate was about 70% for the real estate agency and 60% for the Housing Fund.
Al-Nusairi added that the interest rate for housing loans is 2%, decreasing, and the loan amount ranges between 100-150 million dinars, with repayment periods ranging between 15-20 years, and loans for small and medium enterprises reach an interest rate of 3.4%, with a repayment period of up to 5 years.
Al-Nusairi urged borrowers to commit to paying the monthly installments of loans regularly for the purpose of enabling banks to expand the provision of loans to citizens and achieve the developmental, economic and societal goals of the initiatives of the Central Bank.
It is worth noting that the initiatives of the Central Bank’s initiatives have contributed to supporting the private sector by more than 30% of the total cash credit granted, and that the amounts allocated to the initiatives constituted 8% of the gross domestic product.
NINA / – The representative of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Aoun Al-Nabi, arrived in Tahrir Square, accompanied by the Peace Brigades official, Tahseen Al-Hamidawi./End
The State of Law coalition, led by Nuri al-Maliki, confirmed today, Friday, that the candidate for prime minister, Muhammad Shia, is not affiliated with him, while revealing the party that nominated him.
The deputy of the coalition, Thaer fearful, told (Baghdad Today), that “the candidate for prime minister, Muhammad Shia’a, is not affiliated with the State of Law coalition, and he left the coalition more than (6) years ago, and he has no political association with the coalition, and the man has a party. special to”.
And Mukhaib said, “Muhammad Shi’a is not the candidate of the State of Law coalition, but rather he is the candidate of all the forces of the coordination framework, and this selection was made according to controls and criteria, the most important of which are integrity, courage and success in government and parliamentary work.” The coordinating framework had nominated Muhammad Shia for prime minister, but this nomination angered the Sadrist movement, which came out with purifications, through which he stormed the Green Zone and the House of Representatives in particular.