Iraqi people brace for sweltering summers amid frequent power breakdowns while politicians are playing a blame game
Lawmakers from the southern Iraqi province of Basra have renewed efforts to seek autonomy from the federal government, as they blame it for problems such as lingering electricity crisis in the oil-rich region. a resolution with a majority vote asking Baghdad to give the province control over its oil resources and financial affairs.
Basra, which accounts for around two-thirds of Iraq’s proven oil reserves, is the country’s economic engine, responsible for generating around 80 percent of its revenue. It is also home to Iraq's only port from where oil is exported to international market. Powerful Basra politicians are using autonomy to whitewash their own inefficiency by shifting the blame on the federal government, he told“There is no capacity at provincial level to run the administration. Even if by some miracle they get autonomy, they won’t be able to address any of the problems.”
The autonomy rhetoric of Basra politicians is confined to their province as their colleagues from same parties in Baghdad parliament choose to remain silent over the issue. A Basra politician last year claimed that Bagdad owed the province more than $45 billion. But Mawlawi doubts that number. “Even accumulation of a few year can’t be that much.”
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