The ministerial reshuffle in Iraq.. a step that raises questions about its reasons and motives
The ministerial reshuffle in Iraq.. a step that raises questions about its reasons and motives
11-4-2024
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One of the criticisms recorded against Al-Sudani’s government is its failure to adhere to the deadline for submitting the ministerial evaluation during the first six months of the government’s term, as stated in the government program voted on by the House of Representatives.
The question is who bears responsibility for delaying the presentation of the evaluation that the ministerial committee completed some time ago: the government, the legislative authority, or the political forces?
A government source attributed the delay to the political parties’ insistence on their ministers, while exerting pressure on the Prime Minister to give their ministers another chance. The source pointed out that “political pressures prevented Al-Sudani from making any ministerial changes, although he was determined to do so during the first 6 months of his government’s term,” indicating that “the political forces, just as they objected to and rejected any ministerial change in the first months of Al-Sudani’s government, will not accept the change at this stage, especially since Al-Sudani’s talk about the change comes in light of a political crisis resulting from the disclosure of the eavesdropping or espionage files and the repercussions of the theft of the century and other files.”
As for the legislative authority, it announced that the evaluation committee it formed had completed its work in full and submitted it to the Council of Ministers, according to a statement by the Deputy Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Evaluation Committee for Government Work, MP Mohammed Al-Baldawi, to the / Al-Maalouma / agency, earlier.
After all that, the Prime Minister came out last week with a speech during the House of Representatives session in which he confirmed that the government is proceeding with an expected ministerial reshuffle, stressing that the ministerial reshuffle is not political or personal, but rather reflects the desire to achieve more effective performance to meet the requirements of the stage and the aspirations of citizens.
As for the views of a number of members of the House of Representatives, they went to the decision to carry out a ministerial amendment during this period, which is useless and does not achieve the goal, while some went to the point that it is merely a drop of an imposition and nothing more, so as not to constitute a negative point for the government, which promised in its government program to carry out a ministerial amendment for incompetent ministers.
Head of the Ajyal parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Al-Sayhoud, considered the ministerial reshuffle at this time to be useless, even if it was necessary.
Al-Sayhoud said in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency, “Despite the Sudanese government’s intention to make a ministerial amendment, which was confirmed by the Sudanese Prime Minister, I believe that it is not useful and will not achieve its purpose at the present time, for several reasons.”
He added, “The ministerial amendment certainly requires consultation with the political blocs, especially the blocs whose ministers will be included in the change, and this will certainly take time, in addition to the interest of the political blocs in the election campaign that will begin in the coming months. There is also a reason, which is the most important, which is that the short life of the current government will not allow the new ministers to provide the best in a few months.”
MP Yasser Al-Husseini doubted Al-Sudani’s ability to carry out the ministerial reshuffle that was announced recently and at previous times.
Al-Hussaini said that “the ministerial changes at the present time are strange and that it is nothing more than a political deal and not a professional one, which does not concern the Iraqi people at all,” pointing out “the importance of carrying out the ministerial amendment and keeping it away from political bargaining because it will be sufficient to end the shortcomings that afflict many ministries, most notably oil, industry and trade.”
MP Thaer Al-Jubouri pointed out that “the ministerial amendment is supposed to be early and not now,” ruling out “the possibility of carrying it out due to the insufficient time remaining in the life of the ministerial cabinet, while making the amendment conditional on the House of Representatives questioning the minister and then dismissing him if it is not convinced of him.”
For his part, parliament member Moeen Al-Kazemi believes that “the ministerial amendment proposed by Al-Sudani will have major reactions from the political forces and may lead the country into a real political crisis.”
As for the Committee of Strategic Planning and Federal Parliamentary Service, it confirmed that the ministerial reshuffle will be based on four directions according to the data of the Ministerial Evaluation Committee, indicating that the reshuffle will include between 3 and 6 ministers.
The deputy head of the committee, MP Mohammed Al-Baldawi, said in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency, “The Ministerial Evaluation Committee has completed its full evaluation of the ministries, as it submitted the final report to the Prime Minister, and it is expected that the report will be read in the Council of Ministers during the upcoming meetings.”
He added that “the ministerial evaluation was based on four directions related to the minister’s performance and the level of his implementation of the government program in terms of timing and completion of work, as well as follow-up and monitoring, and finally the level of transparency and integrity standards,” expecting that the ministerial amendment will include from 3 to 6 ministries, and that their replacement will be from the same political blocs according to the political agreement.
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