A leader in the Anbar Alliance: The Ministry of Finance is fueling the disputes between Halbousi and Samarrai.
On Tuesday, Ibrahim Ali al-Dulaimi, a leader in the United Anbar Alliance, revealed that the Ministry of Finance had ignited the intensity of the disputes between the Progress Alliance, headed by Mohammed al-Halbousi, and Azm Muthanna al-Samarrai, as each of them claims that his party has the right to manage the Ministry of Finance.
Al-Dulaimi told Al-Maalouma that “the political talks between the Progress Alliance, headed by Mohammed Al-Halbousi, and the Azm Alliance, headed by Muthanna Al-Samarrai, have deepened the differences and tensions between the two sides over the new distribution of sovereign ministries in the new government formation, after unconfirmed reports that the Ministry of Finance is allocated to the Sunni component.”
He added that “Al-Halbousi claimed that the Ministry of Finance was allocated to his party because it received a high percentage of votes, while Al-Samarrai called for a review of the position of Speaker of Parliament, as it is an entitlement for the component and not for a specific party.”
He explained that “the position of the Ministry of Finance ignited the intensity of the disputes between Al-Halbousi and Al-Samarrai after the latter threatened to withdraw from the council because he does not represent the will of the leaders of the component in the mechanism for distributing positions.”
He confirmed that “some leaders of the National Council sided with al-Samarrai and supported his demand that al-Halbousi’s party has no right to manage the Ministry of Finance file if the narrative of returning the Ministry of Finance to the Sunni component is true.”
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