A brilliant unscripted speech by Osama Barik... Nabila Jalal, speaking on behalf of the Leftist Alliance, lambasts Al-Mansouri!

A session to discuss the government’s program highlighted the hardships faced by residents of rural and mountainous areas. In his remarks, Representative Osama Barik focused on criticizing measures related to “streamlining building procedures,” emphasizing that they further complicate the situation given the issues surrounding the real estate market and communal lands. He also called for redirecting government support toward small-scale farmers who practice subsistence farming and lack disaster insurance mechanisms, stressing the need to support nomadic herders as the true contributors to the preservation of the national livestock herd, while noting the lack of effective communication regarding mechanisms for exempting small-scale electricity consumers.

For her part, Nabila Jalal, coordinator of the Left Alliance’s parliamentary group, announced her group’s rejection of the government program headed by Fatima al-Zahra al-Mansouri, arguing that it lacks concrete and firm commitments in the areas of employment, education, health, and purchasing power. Jalal criticized the entanglement of money and power and conflicts of interest, noting that the rapid ministerial reshuffles raise questions about the mechanisms for vetting candidates’ qualifications. She therefore called for comprehensive constitutional reform leading to a parliamentary system, linking responsibility to accountability, and criminalizing illicit enrichment.