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Al-Salehi: The Constitution is what distinguished among Iraqis, and political hegemony has made it lose the status of citizenship in Iraq

The Head of the Turkmen Parliamentary Bloc, MP Arshad Al-Salehi, participated in the symposium held within the activities of the Sixth Federal Conference on Citizenship, Dialogue and Development, which was titled (Citizenship Challenges and Diversity Management in Iraq).

The symposium was attended by National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, Chaldean Patriarch in Iraq, Cardinal Louis Raphael, and a large number of leaders and MPs of political blocs.

Al-Salehi said that the political dominance of the blocs that make up the government has lost the status of citizenship in Iraq and ended diversity.

He explained that the national diversity in Iraq has become confined among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, indicating that the constitution is the one that distinguished among Iraqis in a sectarian and racist manner par excellence, and the policy of marginalization and exclusion against the components continues until now.

He pointed out that the distribution of the security forces on the basis of descent is racial discrimination.

He stressed that the House of Representatives, in its current session, is governed by what is agreed upon in the State Administration Coalition and enacts laws in the manner agreed upon by the leaders of the coalition. It did not vote on laws that serve people, but political legislation was voted on.

He said that the constitution gave the right to all languages to be an official language, and there are political obstacles in protecting diversity, but we wrote the law on protecting diversity, but the response was that there was no need to legislate this law. We protect you.

He affirmed by saying that if the governments continue to prejudice the rights of the Turkmens and the owners of national projects do not have the ability to protect the rights of the Turkmens and impose racial discrimination, and in my capacity as their representative, I will resort to international courts.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency