Al-Kalabi poses 18 questions to the framework regarding Al-Sudani’s performance and calls for a public debate.
Former MP Youssef Al-Kalabi addressed an official letter today, Thursday, to the leaders of the Coordination Framework and the committee tasked with interviewing applicants for the position of Prime Minister, demanding that caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani be held accountable for a number of files that he said were “documented with evidence,” should the latter apply to occupy the position again.
In his letter entitled “So that we do not forget,” Al-Kalabi said, “It is necessary to ask direct questions to Al-Sudani regarding the size of the internal and external debts that have accumulated during his government’s term, the financial obligations of ongoing projects, the violation of the budget law by not sending the 2025 budget schedules to the House of Representatives, and the mechanism of spending without legislative basis.”
Al-Kalabi called for him to be held accountable for “turning the Council of Ministers into an entity with executive and legislative powers, and his meeting with the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, who is wanted by the Iraqi judiciary under Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law, in addition to preventing the Minister of Finance from attending Parliament and exploiting public funds for political and partisan purposes.”
The letter included criticisms of the government’s performance in the areas of investment, water, combating corruption, managing the oil sector, dealing with the provinces, and withdrawing important laws such as the Popular Mobilization Law and the Civil Service Law, as well as “conflict of interest in the selection of ambassadors, challenging the differences in the Popular Mobilization Forces, and canceling the deduction of the Martyrs Fund.”
Al-Kalabi reiterated his previous call for Al-Sudani to participate in a televised debate, declaring his readiness for a public debate before the Coordination Committee or the media.
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