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Page 2 of 2 Antonia Juhasz: I think that is the direction these laws are going in. And basically anyone who is familiar with the policies of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization, if these are the same policies that are being implemented in Iraq but even more, to a further extreme, it's possible that all of the services won't be privatized, but the way that the law is written, the Bremer orders say that every sector of the Iraqi economy is open to privatization, and much of that privatization has already taken place on the books even if it hasn't been implemented. So the water sector, the water ministry is already investigating privatization. Much of the production, many of the factories, it's already been decided, which ones will be privatized and a lot of this is simply waiting until the new government is in place. | "Nothing is guaranteed in this constitution - one of the things that's very interesting about the final draft is that an effort, an attempt to reach some sort of agreement in the constitution in areas such as human rights and guaranteed services like healthcare and education and those sorts of things are vague as opposed to the constitution that existed when the Americans invaded which guaranteed maternal and child care, education and health services. This constitution does make reference to the right of Iraqis to have an education." |
There's nothing in the constitution that stops that from happening, and rather, with the language like the article that I read (Article 25) says that's exactly what the Iraqis are going to do. There is more language in here, which I think is important to say, because this is a victory for the parliamentarians that worked for it, on things like education and healthcare, which wasn't in the interim draft. But it's nowhere near, what the Iraqis had before and it certainly isn't guaranteed in the way it was before and that is a lot for the parliamentarians that were working for that. Shahram Vahdany : What about the form of government, it stays as it is? Antonia Juhasz: There remains a parliamentary structure, obviously, what is changed significantly is federalism and there is a great deal that's left unclear. The right of Kurdistan to separate seems to be very possible. Shahram Vahdany : Is that possible? Antonia Juhasz: It's possible. It's not guaranteed in the constitution but it's possible. The authority of the North and the South is significantly greater obviously, than it currently is. There's a potential for them both to maintain their own militias, to write their own constitutions but the constitutions can't contradict the federal constitution. But they can still write own constitutions. They have the potential to have a great deal of autonomy, however as I said the constitution is extremely vague on many of these areas and it says most of this is going to be decided by law, which means decided by the parliament after the constitution is passed. Therefore, it means that Iraq is being set up for a huge fight yet to come. Shahram Vahany: Thanks Antonia Read Bush's economic invasion of Iraq, by Antonia Juhasz This interview was conducted on Thursday October 13 2005, Special thanks to Emily Mervyn for transcript. Recommend this article...
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