 Thank you, Lisin. Thank you for the invitation to speak here in this distinguished panel. Talking about democracy in Iraq, maybe it's interesting in some way. Asking to establish a democratic state in the Middle East is a tough ask by any stretch of imagination. Having said that, Iraq have adopted the democracy very well. We have held five elections since 2005 and we had five handover, peaceful handover of power, between one government to another. And interestingly enough, October 10 was the latest election where we are still working on, Iraq is still working on ratifying the results and getting into forming a new government. And yet a new handover of power. But democracy in Iraq is not without its troubles, given that we live in a very troublesome region. And you have asked for looking into the drivers that really put stress on the democracy process and so on. So I'm going to stick to that rather than anything else. And I have identified the four different external and internal drivers that affects the process itself. Given that we are in a conflict zone and we have lived in many wars since 2003, starting with the Iraq liberation and what we call it the Gulf War. And after that we had the Al Qaeda terrorists taking over in some areas and all the conflict that followed. Then we had ISIS. Obviously ISIS with occupying three governments in Iraq was very tough on what followed in the ISIS war. And that has created big divides in the society and we are still living with its aftermath. Dealing with the aftermath of the ISIS war and the atrocities they committed. A second one would be the US-Iran conflict where Iraq has become an arena for that conflict in many ways. And given that both sides have a huge leverage over Iraq and Iraqi politics and each one pulling Iraq to its direction. And that created big trouble for Iraq and its democracy. And especially in the past where we see this conflict reflected in the pulls and push for in government formation. Where one party wants something and the other side wants something completely opposite. And that was vividly displayed in 2018 government formation. Thankfully this time around it looks like that they both have a hands-length distance to this process until now. And from our conversation with both sides that seem that they are not going to be diving into the same process this time again. So that would be a really important factor in that point itself. And clearly the other thing that affects the process, the democracy process in Iraq is sectarianism. The Iraqi society due to all the conflicts that it's lived through. We are now living in a sectarian society in general where we are divided among many sects and perhaps the most obvious three is the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish divide. Where based on religion and nationality. And that has rooted down into the democracy process itself where now we see that we have Shia parties, Sunni parties and Kurdish parties. And we don't have really a cross sectarian party or coalition where they could come down to participate in the process and get votes. A Kurdish party will not get voted in the Arab area. A Shia party will not get voted in the Sunni area and so on. There has been some attempt to break this sectarianism but with a limited or no success. Although it's very much present in the minds of the Iraqis. And many of the Iraqi nationals believe this is a really not a healthy fact to have within the society and within the political process. But nonetheless, it is something that exists and need to be eradicated to and go to citizenship rather than sectarianism. Another driver that really puts a lot of pressure on the democracy process is corruption and mismanagement. We have lived through various governments and the political process has been one of consensus. Every government that we have formed in the past has been consensus among the political parties. And this has resulted in total mismanagement in the infrastructure and reconstruction of Iraq after going through so many wars. And obviously the ISIS war and all that and the corruption that also accompanied this process. We have not been able to fully get rid of this although there are calls for reform and there are calls for fighting corruption and so on. So that on its own contributes to a lot of money which is money from corruption, money from embezzlement that channels through the democracy process in a way that many candidates are able to spend big amounts of money or many political parties who are benefiting from the corrupt system that existed. Now they are funneling back some of the money into the elections and then create even more leverage and more power for themselves in that process. So it is something that we are looking into helping with that or the reform could help in terms of correcting this aspect. But this is also the corruption, the mismanagement and the elitism that created, the process created affects the democracy process and the elections. The positive aspect of the latest election that we have seen, if I mention, would be that the Iraqis now realize through the ballot books they can make change. We have seen the protest movement in 2019 and resulted in the resignation of the government and those protesters took part in the latest election and they have won many, many seats through either running as independent or as a political party that derives from the protest movement. And now that encouraged the others because the protesters were divided between those boycotting the election and those who took part. And now even those who boycotted the election are thinking to run in the next election and we will have a local council or provisional election next year. Many of them now saying that we will take part in the upcoming local elections because now they see the fruit of the democracy and the fruit of the process where they don't have to go through a revolution to make change, but you can go through the ballot books to bring about change and change on the local level perhaps is an easier and better start to have. So all in all, in my opinion, the democracy process works in Iraq. It has its shortcomings here and there, but we have managed successfully to adopt it and to work with it and hopefully it will continue in that way. And thank you.