Blocs behind raising the price of the dollar impede the questioning of MoF
Shafaq News/ The Parliamentary Economy and Investment Committee held, on Tuesday, some political blocs responsible for delaying and disrupting the interrogation of Finance Minister Ali Abdul Amir Allawi and Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Mustafa Ghaleb Mikhaif.
Committee member Nada Shaker Jawdat told Shafak News Agency, “Members of Parliament demanded to host and interrogate the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq after changing the exchange rate of the dollar against the Iraqi dinar, and the increase in the prices of goods and commodities in the markets during the last period.”
She added, “Some political blocs bear responsibility for delaying and disrupting the questioning of the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank for political and personal purposes. They themselves bear the responsibility for the high exchange rate that exceeded 150,000 Iraqi dinars per 100 dollars.”
A number of political blocs and members of the House of Representatives demanded, several times, to question Finance Minister Ali Allawi, and to remove him from his position because of his policy, which some of them described as “failed.”
Jawdat continued, by saying that “the change in the exchange rate and the rise in prices broke the back of the citizen, especially those with daily sustenance and those with limited income.”
The Iraqi parliament failed to hold a session to interrogate Finance Minister Ali Allawi at the end of last May.
Parliament also failed to hold a session at the beginning of this year to interrogate the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Mustafa Ghaleb Mikheib.