This evening, a government-parliamentary meeting will be held in the Constitutional Hall to discuss the “exchange rate”.
This evening, a government-parliamentary meeting will be held in the Constitutional Hall to discuss the “exchange rate”.
2026-10-08 06:00
Shafaq News – Baghdad
An informed source reported on Thursday that the House of Representatives will hold a joint government-parliamentary meeting regarding changing the dollar exchange rate.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that “a meeting will be held in the Constitutional Hall inside the Iraqi Parliament at 8 pm.”
He added that “the meeting will be attended by the Prime Minister, the Speaker of Parliament, the heads of the blocs, the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank to discuss the issue of raising the dollar exchange rate and its repercussions.”
Today, a parliamentary source reported that the governor of the Central Bank informed members of the parliamentary finance committee that the exchange rate of the dollar would remain fixed at 1,500 dinars, stressing that it could not be changed .
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the Central Bank Governor explained to the committee members that any change in the dollar exchange rate within the general budget law would lead to a change in all the budget tables and items that were built on the basis of an exchange rate of 1,500 dinars per dollar .
He added that the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank did not come to the House of Representatives building, while the Governor merely informed the members of the Finance Committee of the Central Bank’s position on the new exchange rate.
The Central Bank announced yesterday, Wednesday, the adoption of new exchange rates, according to which it set the price of buying the dollar from the Ministry of Finance at 1500 dinars, and selling it to banks at 1510 dinars, and to the public at 1520 dinars, starting from October 7, 2026.
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