Parliament Speaker Heibat al-Halbousi announced that the decision regarding the foreign exchange rate adjustment is definitive and irreversible, emphasizing that leaders of political blocs fully support the measure. During an official meeting held inside parliament, al-Halbousi welcomed Prime Minister Ali
Faleh al-Zaidi, who attended to outline the specific details and necessities driving the exchange rate shift. The Speaker reaffirmed that heads of political forces firmly endorse altering the dollar rate, describing the monetary policy decision as final. In turn, Prime
Minister Ali al-Zaidi revealed that the government previously faced three difficult choices, one of which involved distributing employee salaries every 45 days. He pointed out that speculative traders had previously captured the margin between exchange rates. The parliamentary leadership and
political bloc leaders convened with the Prime Minister to address multiple urgent political and legislative issues, prominent among them the surging exchange rate, after the Central Bank set a new selling rate of 1,520 dinars per dollar.
