Iran president due to answer MPs’ questions
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend the Majlis session on Wednesday to respond to questions from lawmakers on a range of different issues, tehrantimes.com reports.
The decision to summon the president to the Majlis was made in February after MPs were not convinced by the answers provided by the president's representatives at a meeting held to discuss the reasons behind irregularities by the administration.
The motion was signed by over 70 lawmakers, who say they want the president to attend a Majlis session and answer a number of questions about his administration's domestic policies, as well as the appointment and removal of key officials.
The motion calls for the president to answer questions about the administration's failure to fully disburse the funds allocated for the Tehran Metro, the failure to meet economic growth target of 8 percent set for the Iranian calendar year of 1389 (ended on March 20, 2011), poor implementation of the subsidy reform plan, the president's alleged resistance to accept the Supreme Leader's decree to reinstate the intelligence minister, president's remarks about the status of the Majlis, the failure to implement the law to establish the Sports and Youth Ministry and nominate the minister at the appointed time, the dismissal of the former foreign minister while on a diplomatic mission in Senegal, the administration's poor performance in regard to cultural plans, and the president's support for the promotion of the Iranian school of thought instead of the Islamic school of thought and his support for the deviant current.
Majlis Presiding Board spokesman Mohsen Kouhkan today said that 11 MPs who had signed the motion to summon the president to the Majlis withdrew their signatures.
