Receive government budget in the court of parliament blocs and expects a new confrontation with Erbil
Receive government budget in the court of parliament blocs and expects a new confrontation with Erbil
16.01.2014 (0:01 pm)
BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah
Expected parliamentary blocs, on Wednesday, that the country is witnessing a new crisis between the federal government and the Kurdistan region, after the cabinet approved the 2014 budget despite the objections of Ministers of the Kurds. And carried Ktlta Kurdistan Alliance and the Liberals, the federal government “full responsibility” for the delay in sending the budget to the House of Representatives, and seen the government dropped the ball in the court of Parliament to get rid of their differences with the province about the allocation of the oil companies and the salaries of the Peshmerga.
He predicted that the deputies are busy Parliamentary Finance Committee to discuss the budget for an entire month, expressed their fears that this may lead to delay approval of the elections scheduled for next April.
It was the voice of the Council of Ministers, on Wednesday, on the state budget and decided to send it to the House of Representatives. This came one day after a meeting of leaders of political blocs in the presence of Prime Minister Ammar al-Hakim absent him and Osama Najafi.
In this context, says pro-ok, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance, that “the federal budget for the year 2014 would have been agreed within the Council of Ministers before being sent to parliament for helped to pass as quickly as possible.”
He Ok, the “long” yesterday, that “the Minister of the Kurds refused to vote on the federal budget within the Council of Ministers because of the failure of the government and the Kurdistan region to resolve all outstanding problems,” stressing that “differences on the dues of oil companies and the Peshmerga remained the same.”
He said a spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance, saying that “the existence of many differences on the federal budget in conjunction with the withdrawal of the bloc united will put a quorum to hold meetings of Parliament put critical”, calling on Parliament to “discuss the budget in the Finance Committee to resolve all disputes prior to submission for reading the first and second.”
Kurdish lawmaker warned of a repeat of the scenario in 2013 when the budget was passed despite the absence of deputies of the Kurdistan Alliance, aggravated that “this scenario will lead to a major crisis between the central government and the region, especially with the approaching parliamentary elections.” On the talk of a reduction of the share of the 17% charged by the region within the federal budget, confirms MP supporter Tayyip that “this case agreed politically and can not increase the share of the region or reduced only by a census that will determine the region’s share real”, persisting saying “thus Government is not entitled to any other party or reduce the share of the province and it’s up now to the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives to make some adjustments. ” Ok accuse the federal government to “refrain from paying dues of the oil companies and the salaries of the Peshmerga,” and urged that the recent “dealing with the oil companies operating in the region, such as those operating in Basra, Maysan and Dhi Qar, which paid her dues-paying and comfortably.”
To the MP Khalid Huani that “the Constitution stipulates that the budget preparation is the prerogative of the Council of Ministers may not be sent to the House of Representatives where the presence of big problems, because it will create a major crisis in the pass and this is what happened in the previous budgets.” And see Huani, in an interview for (long-Presse), “The government dropped the ball in the court of the House of Representatives.” He Huani that “the governments in Baghdad and Erbil represent the competent authority to find a solution to the problems on the file of oil and not the House of Representatives.” In the same context, carried the Liberal bloc thoracic government responsible for delaying sending the budget to the Parliament in 2014 over the past time. According to a member bloc Abdul Amir al-Mayahi “long”, “the parliamentary Finance Committee will be able to view the federal budget for the first reading after about a month from now, because of the proximity of the election.”
He added Mayahi “in the case of late Parliament approving the budget he will have to extend the legislative term until the completion of the budget and thus would lead to the postponement of the elections scheduled for the end of April next year.” He pointed out a member of the Liberal bloc that “the government has failed to resolve the outstanding problems with the dues of Arbil on oil companies and the salaries of the Peshmerga,” stressing that “the government sent a budget to the parliament at face value.”
Mayahi predicted that “repeated scenario last year, when the budget was passed in 2013 in the absence of the Kurdistan Alliance.”
And the reasons for the absence of mass citizen for a meeting of leaders of blocs, which was held in the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday evening, justified MP Abdul-Hussein Abtan that “the arrival of a late call”, stressing that his bloc “with no cooperation is in the unity of Iraq.”
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