Parliament vows to the Minister of Finance.. Preoccupation with the elections rids executive officia

[size=52]Parliament vows to the Minister of Finance.. Preoccupation with the elections rids executive officials of interrogations[/size]

[size=45]The Presidency of the House of Representatives postponed the questioning of Finance Minister Ali Abdel Amir Allawi to future sessions, after he refused to attend the questioning session. Parliament will also raise the issue of the minister's absence next week to set another date, otherwise he will be questioned in absentia and vote on his dismissal.[/size]
[size=45]Jassem Al-Bakhti, a representative of the Parliamentary Al-Hikma bloc, said in a statement to (Al-Mada) that "there is a division within the House of Representatives regarding setting the interrogation session of Finance Minister Ali Abdul Amir Allawi," explaining that "there are blocs that refuse to question the minister, and others support and adopt."[/size]
[size=45]The Presidency of the House of Representatives set, on May 31, the date for the questioning of Finance Minister Ali Abdel Amir Allawi, after a request submitted by Representative Yousef Al-Kalabi, but the Minister of Finance did not attend the session.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Bakhti believes that “there is a problem in the process of questioning or hosting any minister at the current stage, despite the insistence of several parliamentary blocs for the necessity of activating this file,” stressing that “there are a number of interrogation requests submitted before the Presidency.”[/size]
[size=45]The Special Committee completed the audit of the files of the interrogation of the Minister of Finance, the Governor of the Central Bank, and before that the head of the Media and Communications Commission, whose dismissal was voted on, as well as the file of the interrogation of the Ministers of Trade, Oil and Agriculture.[/size]
[size=45]And the deputy from the province of Baghdad continues, "The atmosphere during the current stage is calm between the various political blocs that are preparing to contest the early parliamentary elections," ruling out "the questioning of the Minister of Finance due to the lack of political consensus."[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives Law No. (13) of 2018 in force in Article (22) obligated the formation of a special committee to provide opinion and advice on the extent to which the required conditions are met in the request for interrogation in accordance with the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives.[/size]
[size=45]The internal system of the House of Representatives, in its fifty-eighth article, also requires that a request for interrogation be directed in writing to the Speaker of the House, signed by the person submitting the interrogation, with the approval of at least twenty-five members.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Bakhti added that “the Minister of Finance is above the House of Representatives and refuses to attend more than once, and in the event of his presence, there will be verbal altercations between him and a group of deputies,” expecting that “next week will witness the presence of the Minister of Commerce in Parliament and not the Minister of Finance.”[/size]
[size=45]He points out that "the countdown and approaching the elections are in the government's interest in order to evade the accountability of its ministers in the House of Representatives," noting that "the more we advance and approach the elections, the candidates are preoccupied with electoral propaganda, which makes the chances of questioning almost slim."[/size]
[size=45]For his part, Amer Al-Fayez, an independent deputy in Parliament, confirms that “there are many requests for interrogation, some of which have not been completed and are in the custody of the Parliament,” noting that “among these requests were the interrogation of the Minister of Finance and hosting the Minister of Oil.”[/size]
[size=45]And the winner continues, “There are requests submitted to the Presidency to host Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, as well as the interrogation of the Ministers of Finance and Trade,” noting that “the Minister of Finance refused to attend the interrogation session scheduled for it last Monday.”[/size]
[size=45]Attempts to host Al-Kazemi in Parliament date back to the beginning of last July, when Representative Muhammad Al-Ghabban, head of the Al-Fateh Alliance bloc, submitted a formal request to the Presidency of the House of Representatives to hold an emergency session attended by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to discuss government measures in the face of the Corona pandemic, but other blocs have reservations about this. The request was described as “unfair”.[/size]
[size=45]And a member of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee points out that “the House of Representatives will discuss the issue of the Minister of Finance’s absence from an interpellation in the sessions next week to decide on it,” noting that “there is a tendency to inform the minister of a new date, and in the event he does not attend, the interrogation will take place in absentia and then vote on the dismissal.”[/size]
[size=45]He shows that "there are five questions that the questioned deputy will ask the Minister of Finance, including the rise in the dollar exchange rate, and the flooding of Iraq with debts, interests and loans."[/size]
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