Evaluation of the Performance of the Ruling Parties in Iraq after 2003 from an Economic Point of View

Amer Abduljabbar Ismail …

Through our survey of the political experience in Iraq after 2003, we have witnessed that the greatest indication recognized in this stage is the high percentage of corruption and the low percentage of performance efficiency. The reason is that most of the ruling parties were (starving and came to fill up) through the novelty of partisan quotas in (partnership) governments and accordingly these abhorrent quotas produced choosing an ignorant official, even if he forged his academic certificates, to occupy a very important position. The only criterion for choosing an official is that he should be blindly submissive to the party leader, even if he is ignorant or corrupt.

What is important for the party leader is that the official chosen for the position is good in passing corruption deals in his favor, through verbal directives, so that no responsibility will fall on the party leader later on, and therefore, the ignorant official will be involved, and in the worst-case scenario, if the party leader manages to protect him, then he renounce him and even defame it through the media. This tramp official is faced with two options, either fleeing outside Iraq or imprisonment, and the evidence for this is that we find some party leaders nominating an ignorant person with forged educational certificates to the position of minister or head of a large institution, despite the presence of other members in their parties who have high academic degrees such as a Master or Ph.D. degrees, and some of them have a professor degree !! With reservation that the certificate alone is not sufficient to choose a leader, but we are certain that without it the choice of the leader is not suitable, noting that there are 14 criteria in leadership strategies that must be met to choose a successful leader, and the academic certificate is one of them.

On the other hand, most of the officials appointed by the partisan quotas were seen as corrupters, not only for the benefit of the party leader, but for their own account as well. Accordingly, they had the traits of ignorance and corruption, not to mention high treason. The proceeds of corruption are divided into two parts, one part goes to the official and sometimes it is the largest, and the other part goes to the head of the party. The party leader’s share is spent in part for the media promotion of his person firstly, and then secondly his party for the purposes of electoral propaganda and the other part is for his personal balance and party expenses.

It was noted through the website questionnaires that the popularity of the party (which is largely related to the party leader) decreases significantly by choosing an ignorant or corrupt official or who has the two qualities together mostly for the important executive positions.

Accordingly, we concluded that the popularity that the party leader loses as a result of choosing an ignorant or corrupt official, or both, is greater than the popularity that the party leader gains through electoral media and propaganda with the illegal money he obtained from the ministry or institution (owned by him) through quotas. Therefore, the economic and political outcome became a loss, not to mention the consequences of illegal money, treason of the homeland, the trap of positive justice and the consequences of heavenly justice with his loss to achieve his worldly objective and his dream to achieve the great popularity that he aspires to, albeit illusory.

If we assume that the party leader is convinced to benefit from our practical proposal, which is to choose the honest and efficient official for the ministry or institution that falls within his party’s share, even if he is from outside his party, in order to prove to everyone in word and deed that he has put the right man in the important place and not deceived as the parties’ satellite channels promote to create a deceptive image of the corrupt show him to be honest!! And for the ignorant, to show him a scientist and possesses a supernatural efficiency!! .

This deception may pass on to simple people at first, but soon the smell of his corruption and ignorance stinks and it is reflected negatively on the party leader in the first place, and then he bites the finger of regret for his bad choice.

In the event that the party leader chooses the honest and efficient official, his popularity will rise without the need for false and deceiving media. However, the party leader will lose the illegal funds that finance him from the ministry or institution designated for his party. This is true, but he has been stealing for the past 18 years, although this does not excuse him regarding previous corruption before heavenly justice or positive justice.

In the event that the party leader does not accept this reform proposal, at the very least, he should try it in one of the ministries or institutions designated for his party and compare his political, social and economic situation with the previous situation, and perhaps the actual achievement in this ministry will cover up the failure of other ministries. At the very least, its reform will be gradual, and he will feel the increase in popularity and actual success, then he will taste the thrill of actual success.

It is also possible to benefit from this proposal to be an important basic element for building new parties or a supporter of parties that have not previously held any executive position and have not been involved in any corruption file, i.e. white parties.

Last but not least…
Partisan quotas remains absolutely rejected, but we dealt with it as a reality, and addressing the part is better than neglecting the whole, as well as corruption is rejected, regardless of its type or size, and it is does not fall prescription or repentance because the crime, if it occurs, deserves punishment, but our proposal came to address an existing situation that gnaws the Iraqi state and threatens it with complete collapse, God forbid!, and then the leaders of the parties will not benefit their treasures or their armies…

When regret is too late