Iraqi Studies Unit of Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic studies conducted a survey in Iraq lasted for a period of one month where it started from October 15 / October 2015 till November 15 of the same year, in order to stand on the political, economic, social and security situation in Iraq, Survey Study has included 2400 Respondents who were divided as follows:
First: 600 respondents from Baghdad, Iraq.
Second: 600 respondents from southern Iraq.
Third: 600 respondents from western Iraq, in addition to the internally displaced persons.
Fourth: 600 respondents from the Region of Kurdistan -Iraq .
As for the margin of error in the total sample estimated by +/- 2%
Due to the capacity of the size of the survey , the Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies has proposed on the issuance of this study in accordance with the succession rings.
Part I: the first part of the study focused , in the course of preparation, to put three questions to the sample of respondents. these questions came as follows:
1. What are the most important societal issues of concern to the attention of the Iraqi citizen ?
Education = 6 . high cost of living =7 . sectarianism =14 . opportunities of work and unemployment = 31 . Basic services such as electricity , water,and health = 38 . Corruption =46 . Security = 51 .
An analysis of these results , it is clear that security comes in the priorities of the Iraqi citizen, where the citizen has lost a sense of personal and social security that he enjoyed before the US occupation of his country on April 9 / April 2003, and Iraq became after that date and to this day live in a state of lawlessness has never been familiar with it Since the founding of the modern Iraqi state in the year 1921 .
According to this sample, the respondents has blamed the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the arrival of the case into what it is now, and to the extent that they say he received Iraq with 18 provinces, and gave it 14, and they mean so that he is the reason for the control of the organization of the Islamic state on large parts of the country.
Corruption comes in second place in the hierarchy of priorities of the Iraqi citizen, as this kind of societal diseases reached to the intolerable level. According to the report of International Transparency organization issued in December / December 2014, stressed that Iraq is the most corrpt ones among the four cpontries in the world.
The basic services such as electricity and water occupy third place in terms of its importance for the Iraqi people, this sector constitutes the most
Important files of corruption in Iraq after 2003, although the allocation of successive Iraqi governments since that date until 2014, more than $ 27 billion to treat the problem of electricity in Iraq but the problem still continues to this day.
According to the opinion of those polled , they agreed that the large amounts of money allocated to electricity file and improvement of various services in Iraq over eight years went into the pockets of some businessmen linked to influential politicians in Iraq, pushing for a demonstration of a new rejection of the corruption, injustice and darkness.
The issues of job creation and unemployment are no less important than the issues referred to above, that it occupies the fourth place in terms of the priorities of the Iraqi citizen, and in spite of its importance, but successive Iraqi governments since 2003, and especially the government of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who ruled Iraq for eight years did not work to deal with them effectively, but to waste the Iraqi treasury through corruption and support for the Iranian economy during the siege and support the Syrian president noting that it has entered the state budget since 2003 and until October / October 2014, US $ 750 billion, divided as follows 640 billion revenue of oil, and 110 billion dollars entered Iraq through the remainder of the oil-for-food, and what has been obtained from the frozen funds.
As for the sectarianism , according to the views of those polled , they have agreed that Iraq before the US occupation had been living in a state of societal peace, but in the post-occupation , the government of Nouri al-Maliki represented the fruit of the sectarian quotas system which entered the country in a state of social anxiety led to a sectarian war in Iraq.
The rising of the cost of living in Iraq was the most important for the Iraqi citizen in sixth place, and this arrangement is logically due to the situation in Iraq which is unstable security and rampant corruption . The views of respondents were unanimous that the cost of living during the economic embargo on Iraq since 1990 till 2003, less than the cost of living post-2003.
Consistent with all of the above the issue of Education came as the last concerns of the Iraqi citizen, The sample who their views were responded considered to provide security and economic recovery was more important than the issue of Education, and also agreed that the stability of Iraq’s security and economic prosperity will be reflected on education noting that the relationship between them is a direct correlation.
2. What is the extent of popularity of Iraqi politicians in Iraqi society?
The popularity of Iraqi politicians leaders in Iraqi society :-
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Al- Nujaivi : 78 against him, 5 with him . Masum : 70 against him,8 with him . Nawshirwan Mustufa : 69 against him , 8 with him . Allawi : 72 against him , 12 with him . Al-jubori : 60 against him, 14 with him . Al-Malki : 89 against him , 15 with him . Massud Barazani : 67 against him , 16 with him . Barham Salih : 49 aginst him , 17 with him . Alhakeem: 55 against him , 18 with him. Hadi Al-Amiri: 50 against him , 18 with him . Al-Sadr : 42 against him, 31 with him. Al-Abadi :34 against him, 52 with him.
Graph referred to , illustrates the above and based on the opinions of those polled in the various regions of Iraq and demonstrates that the popularity of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi exceeded all Iraqi politicians, especially former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, especially in the Sunni and Kurdish areas, and these popularity ,according to the views of the sample , due to the pack of reforms adopted and approved by the Iraqi parliament, noting that all of the sample surveyed want to make a positive change that ends the case of terrorism, corruption and the deterioration of public services in Iraq. But the ballot box is left as decisive a factor in how popular Iraqis politicians are .
3. What is the extent of Iraq’s Sunnis support to the policies of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi?
Chart of Sunnis support to the policies of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi : —
Alkurd: 67 against him, 14 with him . Al-Sunni :19 against him ,48 with him Al-Shiit : 12 against him , 76 with him. Kurdistan: 75 against him, 16 with him . The West : 15 against him , 44 with him . TheSouth :13 against him, 78 with him. Baghdad: 10 against him, 78 with him.
Analyzing the chart above , it is clear that the Sunnis of Iraq supports the Government of Haider al-Abadi noting that the sample polled asked the Prime Minister to restore the usurped rights of the Sunnis, who were the only victim of the injustice of the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the duration of his oppressive reign of Iraq. And they asked him do not practice exclusionary and marginalizing policies against their community through his leadership of the country, and the adoption of a participatory policy through effectively integrate the Sunnis of Iraq in state institutions for the advancement of the country.
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