Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Law, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Abstract

phenomenon of corruption is one of the deadly epidemics that affects any power and governance, if it does not face a scientific and realistic plan and with honest intentions and through the institutions and organs of the authorities, it will be the reason for destroying the important bases of the authority and in the end, it will lead to the collapse of the whole governing system,  Unfortunately, today this phenomenon is seen in Iraq, as in international and local reports it seems that since the fall of the Ba'ath regime in 2003  till now more than $800 billion dollars of Iraq's wealth and income have  been wasted through corruption, especially administrative corruption, the difference between the corruption in Iraq and the administrative corruption that is happening in other Western countries is that in democratic and developed countries, the legislature plays a good role in the elimination of this phenomenon alongside the judiciary, generally which sees itself in the role of monitoring and legislation.
The role of monitoring the legislation authority through  the tools of asking and presenting a general topic for discussion and work of parliamentary committees and parliamentary accountability are the most important tools that the legislature can play its.

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