Lakash describes government rejection to consider Basra as Iraq’s Economic Capital as "Shameful"

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP, Mohammed al-Lakash, of the Citizen bloc described the rejection of the government to consider Basra as the Economic Capital of Iraq as “Shameful.”

In a press statement received by IraqiNews.com, he said “The provinces that lie to the south of Baghdad are the victims of the failed governments where most of them are suffering poverty.”

“The rejection of the government to consider Basra as the Economic Capital of Iraq is shameful,” he concluded.

Earlier, the head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, launched an initiative under the title of “Basra, the Economic Capital of Iraq”, calling for “Establishing a governmental city in which the presidencies, ministries and state institutions are represented in order that the presidents, ministers, Deputies and senior officials spend months in this city.”