Establishing of public opinion management alliance

The constituent body of the Public Opinion Alliance held its first meeting on Sunday 7/6/2020 to discuss the founders’ vision of the goals of the coalition and its future work according to the facts of the reality of public opinion in Iraq, especially after the demonstrations that Iraq witnessed on the first of October 2019 and how the protest squares and media channels turned into Broad forums for dialogue.

The meeting identified the loss of the correct directions for managing public opinion, and the importance of being employed in the right direction to turn from a chaotic public opinion into an organized opinion in which all levels of influence within the classes of society are involved.

It was stressed the necessity of gathering youth elites, thinkers, academics and decision-makers within the alliance through dialogue groups to find an interactive process and create an integrated course that documents and presents the opinion of the Iraqi street and passes it through the educated elite to reach it to the decision-maker so that it turns into actionable institutional decisions.

The meeting agreed on the mechanism of the alliance’s work by attracting youth groups and the supportive elite to employ the demands of the demonstrators in a path that serves the building of a democratic state worthy of them.

Also, attracting legislative and executive political figures who believe in change and working to find a space for communication, understanding and trust between them and the first group, and put forward policy alternatives and activate popular control and participatory democracy in decision-making. It was also agreed on the final form of the alliance logo.

This meeting was attended by Dr. Nibras Al-Mamory, Dr. Montaser Al-Aidani and Professor Khaled Al-Nasser and It is mentioned that the Iraqi Women Journalists Forum is one of the founding organizations of the alliance.