"Contractual pressure" forces the Iraqi Minister of Health to resign

"Contractual pressure" forces the Iraqi Minister of Health to resign

Baghdad: Hamza Mustafa

Iraqi Health Minister Dr. Alaeddin Alwan announced his resignation yesterday, while Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced no decision on the matter, which interpreted the lack of constitutional authority. or the Prime Minister or the Council of Ministers and Deputies to reject the resignation of the Minister.
Iraqi MP Hussein Arab, a member of the Iraqi parliament, will explain in a statement to the "Middle East" the reasons for the resignation of the minister "the pressure exerted on him throughout his term", stressing that "n & # 39; could not cope with these pressures, which seemed more than his ability and energy to cope. " Or absorbed. "
Arab added that "the pressure exerted on the minister, and on one political (undisclosed) side, concerned exclusively the contracts, which made him protest more than once to the Prime Minister. , but it seems that the man did not find the appropriate response to his protests, which led him to resign. "He is not responsible for the sabotage and destruction that faces the health sector."
In the same context, former Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji said that "the resignation of the Minister of Health has many implications, knowing that integrity and professionalism can not continue to benefit state institutions due to the predominance of the party, corrupt power and control of important seals in the Iraqi state ".
Araji, in a tweet on "Twitter": "We hope that the Prime Minister will not accept the resignation of Alwan, unless he verifies the fact that the reasons therein are contained."
For his part, Dr. Hassan Khalati, member of the Health and Environment Committee of the Iraqi Parliament, said that "the pressure on the minister, which led him to submit his resignation, notes that these pressures have greatly affected the work of the Ministry ".
He added that "Parliament will form committees to find out which parties exert pressure and blackmail," noting that "the resignation must be a reason for Parliament to play its role of control".
With the resignation of Alwan, the government of Abdul Mahdi, who has not been able to complete his portfolio, the Ministry of Education remains vacant, his health will only be 39, exacerbate the problems of Abdul Mahdi, about a year after his confidence in his parliament.
Tariq Harb, legal expert, said yesterday (Sunday) that "the Constitution has not been granted, and that the Iraqi legal system, including the Council of Ministers System No. 2 of 2019, has been adopted. The law and the House of Representatives Internal, the power to reject the resignation of the Minister.
He added that "the civil service law for employees, who is free from the power to refuse to resign or not to accept it, is confirmed, and the resignation takes effect once it has presented and recorded in the register contained in the Ministry or in the register of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers ".

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