ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Lawmakers and political analysts on Monday accused several ministers in Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s cabinet of abusing their offices to issue politically-motivated decisions designed to boost their election chances.

Iraqi lawmaker Ahmed al-Sharmani said some ministers were engaging in “covert propaganda campaigns” by using state resources to promote themselves and their political blocs.

“This behavior represents a serious violation of public funds and an unlawful abuse of power,” Sharmani told The New Region on Monday. “It has become clear that some ministers are resorting to issuing decisions and usurping state authority to achieve narrow electoral gains, at a time when the people are waiting for real services and solutions to the accumulated crises.”

Turning ministries into campaign platforms, he said, was “a deviation from national responsibility and a betrayal of the oath they swore to uphold.”

Sharmani warned that such conduct threatens the integrity of Iraq’s elections and public confidence in state institutions, calling on relevant authorities to hold accountable those found guilty of misusing their positions.

“We will not allow state institutions to be turned into cheap electoral tools,” he said, urging oversight bodies, the judiciary, and the media to expose violators.

Political analyst Mohammed Ali al-Hakim accused ministers of transforming government ministries into “cheap propaganda tools instead of national institutions that serve the people.”

“What some ministers are doing by issuing selective, election-oriented decisions and measures is crude manipulation of power and a blatant insult to the state,” Hakim told The New Region. “These ministers see their positions only as a means to secure votes, as if the ministry were private property rather than a public institution.”

He called the actions “blatant political corruption” and warned that voters would not be deceived by “repeated electoral theatrics that exploit public money and government decisions to win temporary sympathy.”

“Continuing this approach will destroy people’s confidence in elections and democracy as a whole and will reproduce the same failed class that has driven the country into its current crises,” he said.

Hakim urged regulatory and judicial bodies to act “immediately to stop this farce” and pressed parliament to intervene. “If ministers continue exploiting their positions in this brazen way, we face a real threat to the state and its institutions, and ultimately, citizens will be the biggest losers.”

Iraq is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on November 11.