Under the efforts of Parliament to question him. Iraqi Health Minister resigns

Iraqi Minister of Health and Environment Alaa Al-Din Alwan officially resigned as Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after parliamentary efforts to interrogate him on corruption charges.

"The Minister of Health and the Environment, Dr. Alaeddin Alwan, submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister on Thursday, September 12, 2019, explaining the reasons," said Alwan's office in a statement. .

The statement stressed that "unfortunately, we are exposed to a wide range of sanctions and blackmail attempts and misinformation campaigns in the media, aimed at misusing and distorting the facts, which has reached a level that hinders the work of the Ministry and jeopardizes the chances of success of the reform program that the Government is striving to achieve. I firmly believe that I can not continue working in these circumstances and resign my responsibilities as Minister of Health and the Environment. "

This comes with the beginning of the third Parliament, in the light of efforts to question the Minister of Health in the context of corruption and mismanagement.

Jawad al-Moussawi, a member of the Sairoun alliance backed by Sadr leader Muqtada al-Sadr, announced earlier this month his intention to question Health Minister Alaa al-Sadr. -Alwan, during the new legislature.

Moussaoui said in a statement: "I will question the Minister of Health and the Environment, Alaa Alwan, in the next legislature and I will formally ask the presidency of Parliament to comply with the controls." He added that "the interrogation took place due to the existence of administrative violations and suspicions of grand corruption".

The resignation comes in the context of a confused political atmosphere experienced by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi in the face of escalating tension, political differences and pressures he faces in a number of cases. such as the bombing of the seat of popular mobilization, the completion rates of the government program and the political crisis between the United States and Iran and its impact in this regard. Iraqi.