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Iraq has a Constitution, but not the mechanism needed to apply it. Iraq has parties competing for power, but no parties that can manage the conflict while maintaining social peace and the country’s unity. Iraq has great political proposals about citizenship, the rule of law, public freedoms and social justice, but no political project able to achieve all of those principles.
This is Iraq’s reality, more than 10 years after the end of the totalitarian regime and the start of the political process — which is still confused — fraught with uncertainty and mired in dangers and setbacks.
