Nujaifi: What Maliki has done is a military coup

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“Any attempt to overturn the legitimacy of the parliament is a military coup   because the parliament which gave legitimacy to Maliki’s government and can withdraw it from him ,”Nujaifi said at a news conference in the parliament to respond to al-Maliki , attended by " Shafaq News “.

Nujaifi considered al-Maliki’s accusations as " ignorance in Iraqi constitution and did not in all the countries of the world," adding that “ bypassing this problem caused by Maliki must be through " elections and electing the right person.

“The budget is an important financial law and the government cannot spend a penny before its legislation ," adding that " the Council of Ministers can spend the operating budget but and cannot spend the investment budget“.

Nujaifi thanked the President of Kurdistan Regional Government , the head of the Islamic Supreme Council , Ammar al-Hakim and other political figures for their rejecting position of Maliki’s accusations that supported the parliament “.

“Maliki’s attack is unprecedented and threatens democracy in Iraq and this is not my opinion only but the opinion of all political forces “.

The parliament Speaker considered the attack by Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki as a cover to his failure in running the government , threatening to file a lawsuit against him .

Osama al-Nujaifi vowed on Thursday to file a lawsuit against the semi-official Iraqi satellite channel to cut broadcast of the press conference that has been held to respond to accusations launched by Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki to the parliament in his weekly speech.

Nujaifi answered in a question by a reporter on Iraqi satellite channel cutting of broadcasting his conference, by saying that "if it did that then it won’t be neutral."