Lakash describes nominating Allaq for heading CBI as "Maliki’s plan to postpone elections"

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP, Mohammed al-Lakash, of the Citizen bloc described the decision of the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, by nominating the leader within the Dawa Islamic Party and the former Secretary General of the Council of Minister, Ali al-Allaq, as the head of the Central Bank of Iraq a “Violation to the independence of the independent commissions.”

Speaking to IraqiNews.com “We show some concerns over such actions where Allaq is one of the close figures to Maliki and the Iraqi people are also concerned from this issue.”

“We hope that the CBI to be independent and away from the government’s interference that aims at dissolving the parliament and postpone the elections,” he concluded.