Parliamentary Energy resolves the controversy over the questioning of the Minister of Electricity … and comments on the oil and gas law
Al Furat News: The Parliamentary Energy Committee settled, on Saturday, the controversy over the issue of the questioning of the Minister of Electricity, Majid Hantoush, under the dome of the House of Representatives in its next sessions.
A member of the committee, Amjad Al-Oqabi, told Al-Furat News that “there is no such thing as an interrogation of the Minister of Electricity, and it is not completely presented and there is nothing to be questioned by the minister.”
It is noteworthy that Parliament is heading to question the Minister of Electricity, Majid Mahdi Hantoush, in light of fears of a possible collapse of the system, after the aggravation of the crisis of declining hours of supplying national electricity in Baghdad and the provinces of the Middle Euphrates again, in conjunction with high temperatures and the outbreak of the Corona virus.
Al-Uqabi added, “As for the oil and gas law, it will be transferred to the next parliamentary session for controversy over its provisions. It also needs many and many sessions to approve it.”
Al-Oqabi indicated, “But if Hayat, the presidency of Parliament, insists on going ahead with it, we will have 5 months before he dissolves himself to run for the early elections to be held on October 10, 2021,” hopefully.
The Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee approached the Cabinet and the Ministry of Oil for the purpose of expediting amendments to the oil and gas law and sending it to Parliament.
Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail stressed the importance of expediting the passage of the federal oil and gas law, and its importance in regulating the management of oil and gas wealth in Iraq.