As the current Iraqi government is a caretaker government, it cannot send law proposals to the parliament. However, the food security crisis due to the Russian war in Ukraine has led the Iraqi government to propose a food security law.

The parliamentary Finance Committee announced on May 14 that the money allocated under the food security bill had increased to 27 trillion Iraqi dinars. Yet this bill was aborted by the Federal Court on May 15, because it contradicts the constitution, which embarrassed the cabinet, according to the finance minister.

The federal court rejection came a day before discussing it in the parliament. The decision was denounced by the three elements of the largest coalition in the parliament, Saving the Homeland, which consists of Muqtada Sadr’s movement, Masoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party and Muhammad Halbousi’s Sovereignity Alliance. 

On May 16, the head of the parliamentary Finance Committee, Hassan al-Kaabi, who belongs to the Sadrist movement, said that aborting the law means depriving the people of electricity and food, while the movement’s opponents in the Coordination Framework welcomed the court’s decision.