Sadr approves tasking Shukri with Acting Finance Minister

Najaf (IraqiNews.com) The leader of the Sadr Trend Muqtada al-Sadr approved tasking the Minister of Planning, Ali al-Shukri, with the responsibility of running the Ministry of Finance, noting that “This decision came to serve the Supreme Patriotic Interests.”

The Sadrist Minister, Shukri, will assume the responsibility of running the Finance Ministry instead of the Minister RAfi al-Esawi of the Iraqiya Slate.

A statement by the Sadr’s office cited “We have approved to task Shukri with the responsibility of running the Ministry of Finance to serve the Supreme National Interests,” noting that “We have informed our brothers at the Iraqiya Slate about the justifications for this decision.”