The Iraqi Federal Court ruled to overturn the appointment of current Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar to the management and chairman of the Iraqi National Oil Company.

According to the Iraqi News Agency, it has “determined that paragraphs (2) and (3) of Cabinet Regulation No. (109) of 2020 and Regulation (211) of 2021 are invalid, and their repeal is related to the implementation of steps to the establishment of the National Oil Company and Abdul-Jabbar to head it.”

She added that “the court ruled that “the failure to find means of preserving the public money, which is in fact the property of the whole people, by the authorities authorized by law, constitutes a violation of the provisions of article (27/first) of the constitution, and that failure to do so leads to lack of social justice and lack of national belonging to the state”.