Jalal Talabani
Said President Jalal Talabani: that the response to the legitimate demands of the people is devoted to the legitimacy of power and consolidation of a democratic system in the country.
Talabani said in a letter addressed to the Iraqi people the day I got (and) a copy of it: “I do not have power in our democratic society to put her hand on the pulse of the people and listen to them and meet their legitimate demands. It is clear that the problem of services, particularly electricity supply and providing materials for the ration card and other require processors radical and serious, like the corruption that is no longer just hang for the economy but has become the cause of shaking the confidence of citizens in the democratic system. “
He continued: “It may be impossible to achieve rapid progress in all these files, but do not need to initiate urgent measures within a comprehensive plan placed a schedule for implementation and announce to the world in order to be the subject of follow-up of the executive authority and control of the legislature and the monitoring of the media and civil society organizations and citizens in general “. in favor of the invitation of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to determine the period of one hundred days to begin to tackle the existing problems and to hold accountable any official prove negligence or poor performance.
Talabani said: “that there are mistakes
self and obstacles from within the new system and a decline in performance, particularly in the area of services, and the fight against corruption and create jobs. And resulted in the accumulation of inherited problems and new to the resentment of people reflected in the asylum numbers of Iraqi citizens to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful assembly and expression of opinion and call for their legitimate. “
He added: “Having witnessed the events on Friday, violence, try to pay them those who have worked to capitalize on popular protest and employed to destabilize the political system, but their plans foiled by the combined efforts of the security forces and a number of demonstrators who showed a high degree of awareness and discipline.”
Indicating that any transgression of the law highly condemnable and any breach of security is out of the law which ensures the peaceful demonstrations, but require non-violation of the legislation.
And Abizaid: “If the protest is really legitimate and constitutionally guaranteed, the attempts to destabilize the democratic system can not accept them, because the power in our country circulates through the will of the people represented by the general election, through the ballot box.”
Talabani expressed his regret about the events which saw the shootings and other acts that led to casualties and injuries, and called for an investigation to find out and to hold negligent.
