Prime Minister or Republic? Al-Tamimi reveals the most powerful position in Iraq
Prime Minister or Republic? Al-Tamimi reveals the most powerful position in Iraq
4-19-2025
Al-Maalouma / Baghdad
Legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi confirmed on Saturday that the political system in Iraq, according to the constitution, is based on a parliamentary system, which grants the Prime Minister broad executive powers as a representative of the people inside and outside the country.
Al-Tamimi said, in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency, that “there is a fundamental difference between the government and the state,” noting that “the government is part of the state institutions, while the state includes a group of integrated and multiple institutions. Governments change, but the state remains.”
He added that “the Iraqi constitution stipulates in its first article that the system in Iraq is parliamentary, which means that the Prime Minister emerges from the elected parliament, which makes him directly responsible for the general policy of the state and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.”
He pointed out that “Articles (78 to 87) of the constitution define the powers of the Prime Minister, the most prominent of which are managing the affairs of the state, proposing draft laws, issuing regulations and instructions, declaring war and imposing a state of emergency, as well as leading public policy.”
He explained that “the Prime Minister also has the power to select and dismiss ministers with the approval of the House of Representatives! In addition to chairing Cabinet meetings, representing the country in international forums, and signing agreements, memoranda of understanding, and contracts with foreign countries and companies.”
He stressed that “the Prime Minister sets his ministerial program and supervises its implementation, monitors the performance of the various ministries, and is primarily responsible for planning and implementing the state’s general policy,” noting that “his role in the parliamentary system is largely equivalent to the role of the President of the Republic in presidential systems.”
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