MP supports demonstrators demands to sack Baghdad’s Council, Governor.

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com – The Independent Legislature in Iraq ’s Parliament, Safiya al-Suheil, has expressed support on Friday for the demands of demonstrators in Baghdad , to abolish Baghdad ’s Council and sack its Governor, Salah Abdul-Razzaq. “The demands of the demonstrators had been clear and frank, as they have been demanding the cancellation of trust from the Council of Baghdad’s Province,” Suheil told IraqiNews.com news agency.   She said that “more than 90% of the Baghdad Council’s members are not original inhabitants of the Iraqi capital, being strangers, who don’t understand the nature, habits and traditions the city, along with their bad administration and corruption.”   Suheil said she had met some of the persons, who organized Friday’s demonstration in Baghdad and some of its participants, along with Baghdad ’s leading personalities.   “The demonstrators demands are clear, as they demand to liberate their city from those who had been imposed on them, carrying agendas that aim at transferring the Iraqi capital into a religious city, canceling its civilian nature, despite fact that they and the parties that brought them are jointly responsible to achieve their commitments to respect the constitution, that confirms necessity to respect freedoms, democratic principles and human rights,” she said.   Suheil said that “the corruption and ignorant elements must be accounted legally and not only politically, through demanding their resignation by their party leadership or their leader-in-charge.”   “The demonstrators are demanding to account those officials, restoration of the funds that were stolen, along with their ignorance towards the citizens of Baghdad , which they pushed towards reaction and backwardness,” she added.   She said that “the abolishment of trust must not be taken against Baghdad Province ’s Council, but from officials in the Federal Government, because the sufferings of Baghdad citizens is a joint responsibility by the local administrations and the Federal Government.”   Noteworthy is that Baghdad and a number of Iraqi provinces had witnessed broad protest demonstrations against the deterioration of services and demanding political reforms, along with putting an end to administrative corruption and unemployment, last Friday and previous Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, that witnessed clashes between demonstrators and security men that killed several demonstrators and wounded a number of others, including security men.   FT / SKH 408