Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zaidi announced substantial procedural progress regarding the government’s ambitious nationwide initiative to distribute one million residential land plots during a high-level executive session on Monday, July 6, 2026.
Chairing the third annual convention of the Supreme High Commission for Coordination Between Provinces, al-Zaidi emphasized that the primary baseline metrics governing the spatial allocation of these land plots will rely strictly on regional population density data and verified local poverty indexes.
This unified socio-economic formula is designed to guarantee absolute institutional fairness and maximize immediate material utility for the country’s most vulnerable demographic segments.
Addressing an assembly that included provincial governors, regional council chairs, cabinet ministers, and senior developmental advisors, the Prime Minister explicitly ordered local administrations to separate structural public service delivery from polarizing partisan disputes.
Al-Zaidi underscored that the federal cabinet and provincial governments operate as a singular administrative entity, directing local executives to actively dismantle bureaucratic red tape and establish flexible regulatory frameworks to attract foreign investment.
The comprehensive session culminated in the official ratifications of eleven sweeping developmental decrees explicitly designed to boost municipal functionality and expand localized sovereign revenues.
In a decisive move to address the ongoing national housing shortage, the commission authorized the immediate allocation of dedicated residential land tracts specifically reserved for individuals registered under the Political Prisoners Foundation.
To resolve critical water purification supply constraints, the ratified decrees granted all provincial governments and the Mayoralty of Baghdad autonomous authority to directly import liquid chlorine from international markets until domestic capacity expansions at the state-run Al-Furat chemical complex are finalized.
Furthermore, the council approved a comprehensive quarterly drinking water safety report alongside a series of structural amendments directing the Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Public Municipalities to legally reroute fifty percent of all central weigh-station revenues straight back into provincial budgets.
The strategic overhaul also targeted regional healthcare management and agricultural optimization across multiple jurisdictions. The commission approved several major public health proposals submitted by the Ministry of Health, headlined by the creation of specialized medical rapid-response teams to manage logistical contingencies and patient triage during large-scale religious pilgrimages.
Additionally, the new directives decentralized professional medical training by permitting new graduates from the medical colleges of Al-Mustansiriya, Al-Nahrain, and Ibn Sina universities to complete their mandatory clinical rotations within their home provinces rather than clogging facilities in the capital.
Finally, the Prime Minister authorized regional governors to bypass redundant agrarian reform restrictions to reclaim underutilized state lands, while simultaneously establishing judicial fact-finding committees to audit stalled investment licenses and fast-track multi-million dollar strategic agricultural and livestock projects.