Kuwait Conference and the lack of confidence among Iraqi parties: the number of the Iraqi delegation participated in Kuwait conference is a clear evidence to the lack of confidence among Iraqi parties. Also, some emphasized that the number of participants is exaggerated and it has left a bad impression on the host country. It also sent a powerful signal of the corruption in Iraq, and the lack of unity in the Iraqi decision and partnership of all political blocs in the investment decisions, and the exclusion of the specialists’ opinions, which is impermissible in the leadership and administrative philosophy in terms of the multiplicity of the decision makers or the exercise of leadership.

There are many unapproved laws in the Iraqi Parliament; however, the dialogue during the week focused on the two laws of elections and public budget. Some clarified that it is the Iraqi government’s duty to equate all provinces according to one criterion, and define the Regional share of the budget in accordance with the human population rather than the political agreements on the expense of Iraqis as in the past. Also, the government must work to increase the share of the provinces from the oil, as it is one of their legal rights.

The government of Mr. Adel Abdul Mahdi may face many difficulties; however, the most difficult one, that we can call “bottleneck” from which the government will get out, is the distribution of ministries. After that, the government can heave a sigh of relief when done with this within the specified constitutional period. In the same context, some believe that the upcoming government will be difficult to pass through the parliament, along with targeting a number of candidates for some of the ministries.

Postponing the elections is a political suicide: The demands of political blocs and some politicians to postpone the elections are due to several reasons, including: the blocs fear of being unelected by their audiences, the wide public frustration towards those blocs and their inability to face the audience to promote their future political projects. In addition, there is an external prodding to bury democracy in Iraq, a fear of audience reluctance to participate in the elections, and some officials fear of losing their positions and privileges that they are having now.

The budget and the bottleneck: most of the world’s states use the budget as a mean to achieve strategic goals planned for years, each year is a complement of the previous one, integrated with what is planned for the future. This way, the sustainable development is settled and the budget plays a significant role in changing the country towards the best. Unfortunately, this does not exist in Iraq, where the budget is like a ball that does not settle, while everybody wants to move it according to his or her interest. Here, the budget gets out of its administrative frame and is molded according to several views that lack professionalism.

The events in Iraq increasingly continue to unfold as some inquired to whether the young political process in Iraq was hit by a (political premature aging), especially in the field of partisan work, as the search started for young blood away from partisanship. This can be interpreted as a political patching process to deceive the voter through changing the partisan interface of those parties.

During the last week, discussion was made about the vision of the United Nations regarding the Iraqi government’s prioritization for the post-ISIS stage, including the importance of reconstructing the destroyed cities, the return of the displaced people to their homes, weapons restrictions, and fighting corruption. There was also discussion about several terms that call for a change in the Iraqi political scene, including the generation displacement and generation succession or integration. Also, an emphasis was placed on the content of those terms for being associated with the political future of the country, with a reference to the fact that the change is up to the Iraqi voter rather than the theoretical or security terms.

Many ideas and perspectives were presented during the week, including some views about democracy describing it as a “political mirage”, and that Iraq is a victim of that mirage. In addition, some believed that democracy affected Iraq so much as it produced a real mess in the country, comparing to the monarchy states that are mostly stable and work according to fixed strategic plans, and develop incrementally. The question is “have our societies realized democracy correctly? Alternatively, are those chosen for the democratic governance below the required level? On the other hand, were not the four years enough to apply the development plans?

Eliminating corruption is the biggest challenge faced by Iraq, as some see that the change of the public concepts in the society made the corruption most often a kind of “savvy”. Also, some described corruption as one of the fatal societal diseases and classified corruption into several types, saying that Iraq suffers from the (compound corruption) which means the existence of more than one type of corruption in the Iraqi environment.

The dialogue of this week discussed the nature of the war against corruption, announced by the Prime Minister, and to whether it will include the corrupted ringleaders of authority or will only target those corrupted people of the middle classes. In addition, the dialogue of this week addressed the upcoming US and Saudi role in Iraq, as some see that political blocs will be formed as a wall against the political wings of Popular Mobilization and the forces that support it, aiming at succeeding in...