One of the criticisms leveled at Al-Sudani’s administration is that it failed to meet the deadline for submitting the ministerial evaluation within the first six months of its term, as stipulated in the government program approved by the House of Representatives.
The issue at hand is who is accountable for delaying the evaluation that the ministerial committee completed some time ago: the political forces, the legislative authority, or the government?
The political parties’ insistence on their ministers while putting pressure on the Prime Minister to give their ministers another chance was blamed, according to a government source. According to the source, “political pressures prevented Al-Sudani from making any ministerial changes, although he was determined to do so during the first six months of his government’s term.” This indicates that “the political forces, just as they objected to and rejected any ministerial change in the first months of Al-Sudani’s government, will not accept the change at this stage, especially since Al-Sudani’s talk about the change comes in light of a political
According to a statement that the Deputy Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Evaluation Committee for Government Work, MP Mohammed Al-Baldawi, made earlier to the / Al-Maalouma / agency, the legislative authority announced that the evaluation committee it formed had completed its work in full and submitted it to the Council of Ministers.
After all of that, the Prime Minister made a speech last week during the session of the House of Representatives in which he confirmed that the government is proceeding with an anticipated ministerial reshuffle. He also emphasized that the ministerial reshuffle is not personal or political; rather, it reflects the desire to achieve more effective performance in order to meet the requirements of the stage and the aspirations of citizens.
Regarding the opinions of a few members of the House of Representatives, they decided to implement a ministerial amendment during this time, which is pointless and does not achieve the goal. Others, on the other hand, decided that it was just a drop of an imposition and nothing more, so as not to hurt the government, which had promised to implement a ministerial amendment for incompetent ministers in its government program.
Even though the ministerial reshuffle was necessary, MP Mohammad Al-Sayhoud, head of the Ajyal parliamentary bloc, thought it was pointless at this point.
“Despite the Sudanese government’s intention to make a ministerial amendment, which was confirmed by the Sudanese Prime Minister, I believe that it is not useful and will not achieve its purpose at the present time, for several reasons,” Al-Sayhoud stated in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency.
He continued, “The ministerial amendment certainly requires consultation with the political blocs, particularly the blocs whose ministers will be included in the change, and this will certainly take time, in addition to the political blocs’ interest in the election campaign that will begin in the coming months.” The most significant reason is that the new ministers will not be able to deliver the best in a few months due to the current government’s short lifespan.
MP Yasser Al-Husseini questioned Al-Sudani’s capability to implement the ministerial reshuffle that had been previously announced.
Al-Hussaini noted that “the importance of carrying out the ministerial amendment and keeping it away from political bargaining because it will be sufficient to end the shortcomings that afflict many ministries, most notably oil, industry, and trade” and that “the ministerial changes at the present time are strange and that it is nothing more than a political deal and not a professional one, which does not concern the Iraqi people at all.”
MP Thaer Al-Jubouri said, “The ministerial amendment is supposed to be early and not now,” and he said, “The possibility of carrying it out due to the insufficient time remaining in the life of the ministerial cabinet, while making the amendment conditional on the House of Representatives questioning the minister and then dismissing him if it is not convinced of him” was ruled out. The ministerial amendment was supposed to be early and not now.
“The ministerial amendment proposed by Al-Sudani will have major reactions from the political forces and may lead the country into a real political crisis,” according to parliamentarian Moeen Al-Kazemi.
According to the Ministerial Evaluation Committee’s data, the Committee of Strategic Planning and Federal Parliamentary Service confirmed that the ministerial reshuffle will be based on four directions, indicating that the reshuffle will include between 3 and 6 ministers.
“The Ministerial Evaluation Committee has completed its full evaluation of the ministries, as it submitted the final report to the Prime Minister, and it is expected that the report will be read in the Council of Ministers during the upcoming meetings,” MP Mohammed Al-Baldawi, the deputy head of the committee, told Al-Maalouma Agency.
He went on to say that “the ministerial evaluation was based on four directions related to the minister’s performance and the level of his implementation of the government program in terms of timing and completion of work, as well as follow-up and monitoring, and finally the level of transparency and integrity standards.” He was anticipating that the ministerial amendment would include between three and six ministries, and that their replacement would come from the same political blocs as per the political agreement.
