She called for "integration through work, by widening and softening constraints that weigh heavily on Roma populations who wish to work, by eliminating the tax paid by the employers of the Roma and widening, in a very big way, the professions they can have access to".

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In any case, parliament is bogged down with the need to pass other bills, one setting up provincial elections and another softening the de-Baathifcation law, which has left too many (mostly Sunnis) unable to work, and thus sympathetic to the insurgency.

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