The Federal Supreme Court: appointing security ministers is not within the authority of the prime ministers and the parliament

Today, Tuesday, the Federal Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed against the Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament regarding the delay in naming the security ministers for the ministries of (defense, interior and national security). 

The offical spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul Sattar al-Bayraktar, stated that the court found in the plaintiff’s appeal that the appointment of the security services is unconstitutional despite the passage of more than five months after the appointment of acting ministers is something that is not mentioned in the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, and that their selection is made according to the (national partnership) as agreed by the political blocs and are not within the jurisdiction of the prime minister or the speaker of the parliament. Bayraktar added that the court sees that the selection of the security ministers take place in harmony between the blocs and each according to his parliamentary entitlement, and since the consensus has not occurred, so it is no longer a violation of the provisions of the constitution and that naming ministers and ratifying them is not the business of the defendant. Rather, the blocks in choosing those who have the advantages.