Iraqi apply for Parliament to take urgent action restore the independence of the central bank
Iraqi apply for Parliament to take urgent action restore the independence of the central bank
Wednesday, November 21 2 / November 2012 02:11
[Baghdad – where]
Iraqi List, announced submit a request to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to take urgent action restore the independence of the Central Bank of Iraq and prevent domination of the government.
A spokesman for [Iraqi] Haider Mulla, told all of Iraq [where], that “the reasons to open the investigation cause the central bank is the high price of the dollar and the devaluation of the Iraqi dinar, but the measures taken by the government against the bank, which we have demonstrated our reservation it led to the high value of the dollar against the dinar as the value of the dinar against the dollar [1190] today and became [1240]. ”
Mullah warned of “economic disaster could be resolved in the country during the next few days, due to the intervention of government action the central bank and the high value of the dollar at the expense of the value of the dinar.”
The Cabinet decided earlier assigned Chairman of the Board of Supreme Audit Abdul Basit Turki Department of the Central Bank of Iraq to succeed former Governor Sinan al-Shabibi.
For his part, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a press statement, said that “heads big fall issue of the Central Bank, and the Bank governor had been refusing to let us know anything, one of the places monetary policy and sells dollars and stir the market and the dinar, while the government does not have any income basis” , he said.
He pointed out that “Shabibi talking three years ago about the great imbalance in the central bank,” noting that “no possesses expertise in the field of money and monetary policy, but abide by the constitution, which stipulates that the Council of Ministers responsible for monetary and fiscal policy”, adding that “the intervention in the case came after the central bank reduced the value of the dinar against the dollar. ”
Maliki noted that “the opponents of the House of Representatives, politicians and imams Friday in the country do not know the facts issue of the Central Bank,” he said.
The accused cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi government meddling in the work of the central bank without the right hand, which threatens the collapse of the country’s economy.
He said al-Sadr, according to a press statement received [where] a copy of “the country’s economy is threatened and on the brink of collapse, especially after the intervention of prime minister job CBI unjustly or guidance or book Munir,” calling on parliament to “work to save the economy of Iraq.” Ended 2
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