Corruption In Iraq With “Political Protection”.. Parliamentary Bloc: We Identify The Corrupt And Cannot Hold Them Accountable, 3 SEPT

 Corruption In Iraq With “Political Protection”.. Parliamentary Bloc: We Identify The Corrupt And Cannot Hold Them Accountable

Politics | Yesterday, 10:02 |Baghdad today – Baghdad  Today, Monday (September 2, 2024), the Parliamentary Amal Bloc confirmed that there is protection for some corrupt and negligent people that prevents the Iraqi Council of Representatives from exercising its role in holding them accountable.  

The head of the bloc, Representative Yasser Al-Husseini, told “Baghdad Today” that “there are negligent people and there are many great suspicions of corruption in various ministries and on the work of some ministers, but
 
at the same time there is political protection that prevents these people from being held accountable and interrogated in the House of Representatives, by the controlling parties.” On the governmental and parliamentary scene.  Al-Husseini stated,
 
“Many of the representatives and parliamentary committees identify many cases of negligence and suspicions in the work of the ministries and some officials,
 
but any move by these representatives results in pressure to prevent any move for accountability or interrogation, and
 
for this reason you find the House of Representatives without a real oversight role due to the political protection of negligent and corrupt people.”.
 
Iraq is classified among the most corrupt countries in the world, in the Corruption Perceptions Index for 2023 issued by Transparency International, as Iraq ranked fifth among the most corrupt countries in the world.
 
The former Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Jeanine Plasschaert, confirmed during her recent briefing on Iraq before the UN Security Council that corruption is still continuing in Iraq, noting at the same time that its treatment is not at the required level.

This was also confirmed by the German Ambassador to Iraq, Christiana Homann, in her first appearance after assuming the position, where she said,
 
“Yes, there are German investors who were asked to pay some kind of bribes and royalties in exchange for obtaining contracts, but they did not pay, as the matter is illegal in our country and they will be punished.” The law if they do so.
 
Iraqi officials do not deny the existence of rampant corruption in state agencies, through their political speeches and seminars to the media.
 
Everyone knows that the only issue that the political forces participating in the government have agreed upon is dividing the ministries and state institutions and turning them into sources of  rent for them.
 
This deep-rooted corruption is a serious obstacle to the country's development, undermining people's confidence and paralyzing all efforts to provide basic services to citizens, according to observers.   
 
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