The performance of Al-Jaafari Governorate does not meet the satisfaction of most Iraqis

 Many months have passed on the formation of the government of Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, and the political program of this government which was presented to the national assembly and approved is one of its sessions, pointed out to a set of aims and objectives which it undertook to fulfill during the period extending until the date of the coming elections.

 And with the aim of measuring the extent of complying of the aims lard down with the actual reality and showing the extent of the citizen feelings with what actually was achieved, Tamuz Organization for Social Development performed a questionnaire is which it asked certain question to a sample of citizen numbering 265 persons distributed approximately equally between women and men and concentrated in four districts in Baghdad which are Zayona, Al-Shaib, Al-Talibiya and Al-Thawra (Al-Sadir) and the question was the following:

 1-     What is your evaluation of the work of Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari government in the following basic fields:

 1-     In the field of achieving security and combating terrorism.

2-     In the field of combating corruption.

3-     In the field of solving the problem of electricity.

4-     In the field of solving the problem of unemployment.

5-     In the field of the time schedule of the withdrawal of the multi national forces.

 The analysis of the parameters obtained the form in these questions allows for the registration of the following general which is the great majority of those included in the questionnaire had a negative position with regard to the performance of Al-Jaafari government and this is clear from the following indications:

 -          About 67% of the sample members (178 persons out of 265) they see that the performance of the government in the field of achieving security and combating terrorism is not good, while 16% of the sample they see that the performance is acceptable 12% good, 3% very good and 2% excellent.

-          As for the field of combating corruption the results came stronger than the previous paragraph, where it is noticed that 74% of the members of the sample (167 out of 265 persons) they see that the government performance in this field is not good compared with 21% shoved that the performance was good and acceptable. As for those who evaluated the performance of the government in this field as very good or excellent, it was very humble and did not exceed 2% and 3% respectively.

-          And as far as what concerns the evaluated of the performance of the government in the field of solving the electricity crisis, the evaluation was extremely negative, where it appeared that 90% of those includes in the questionnaire (239 out of 265 persons) saw that the performance was not good and 6% acceptable. It seems that the electricity occupied the basic issue today, beside the problem of unemployment and combating terrorism.

-          It seems that the high percentage in the field of electricity (90%) is a loud expression for the state of overwhelming popular protest to the performance of the government in this field.

-          And in the field of solving the problem of unemployment there was 77% (204 out of 265 persons) who believed that the performance of the government in this field was not good, while 15% of the members of the sample saw that the performance is acceptable and not more than 5% saw that the performance was good. And the questionnaire did not show who sees the performances was very good or excellent.

-          As for what concerns the evaluations of the procedures and situations of the government about the time schedule of the withdrawal of the multi- national forces, 68% (180 out of 265 persons) of those to whom question was asked considered that the performance of the government was not good, while 16% of the sample members saw that it is acceptable and 9% as good and the percentage who saw that this performance was very good or excellent did not exceed 8% only of the total members o the sample.

 In conclusion there was 75% (as an average) of the sample members, i.e. three quarters of the sample who see that the performance of the government in the basic aspects indicated above was not good, and this requires from the government to revive its procedures and perform real evaluation for the procedures it took and deducing the appropriate lessons to attempt to improve the performance in these fields which are in direct contact with the people, especially that the life of the government is short where there are only about four months which of it.

And if we arrange the results in descending order we could register the following:

 ·        In the field of electricity, the popular resentment reaches the peak here, and represents 90% of those included in the questionnaire who see that the performance of the government is not good, and the people did not notice improvement, even a simple one in this field, and it reflects the reality of the daily suffering in which the population live especially in the capital, this outrageous reality which even the supporters of the government coalition could not defend except attributing the reasons of failure in the explosions to which the centers of electrical power are subjected. Inspite of the correctness of this, however it represents part of the truth and not all of it.

·        The unemployment comes in the second place, where 77% of those included in the questionnaire see that the performance of the government is not good, and the problem here is that all the initiatives taken are cosmetic initiatives and are not part of long term program. The reason of this idea is the look of the consecutive governments including the president government to the problem of unemployment as a technical issue and not as socioeconomical problem and consequently it requires a program with socioeconomical and political solutions.

·        Corruption occupies the third place according to the opinion of the members of the sample, where it is noticed that 74% see that what is taken of procedures are not good where corruption has become a phenomenon having infrastructure reproduced continuously. It seems that the measures taken by the government are below the level of this phenomenon, and this resulting from the wrong approach of the government to this phenomenon which looks of it considering as an incidental phenomenon and not a part of structure whose roots are deep in the political/ economical structure and part of it is the product of the buried regime and another part is connected with the procedures of the occupation authority, and the third part is connected with the consecutive governments that followed the departure of the buried regime.

·        The situation concerning the procedures of the government about its performance in the field of achieving security and combating terrorism occupies the fourth place, where there are 67% of the members of the sample who believe that the performance of the government is not good and below the required level. Undoubtedly the last months, irrespective of some achievements here and there, it showed without doubt that the performance in the field of security is below the required level and it did not achieve serious achievements inspite of the statements of these responsible about this sector whose judgment to matters and achievements emanate from mere quantitative approaches haunted by the game of figures and not by who study behind them, and not moving from the vital question today which is: what are the qualitative achievements realized on the level of combating the forces of terrorism which are still a main players in the political scene and its activity did not weaken except in the mind of the designers of the reports of the security sides? The root of the problem here and the failures and not achieving a qualitative transformation lies in a set of combined reasons but at the foremast is the security approach of the issue and not considering the security solution as a part of strategy taking into consideration the economical/ social/ political procedures and depending on the masses and putting confidence in them, and if the present strategy is not changed the problem will remain and the sources of terrorism will not be dried except through the popular well, the confidence in the masses and getting rid of the sectarian sharings and building security establishments whose first and last loyalty is to the country and not to the sect, nationality or the party concerned.

·        And on its part the position of the government regarding the time schedule of the withdrawal of the multi- national forces occupies the fifth place where 68% of those questioned considered it not good. It seems that the inclarity of the government strategy in this regard and the multiple statements of the donating collation sides is the one that explain this result.

Against that and in order to form a between picture about the structure of the mentioned sample we show below some of the detailed parameters:

The distribution according to age categories

 The distribution according to nationality                            

The distribution according to professions

The distribution according to scholastic level