Parliamentarian from Karbala: We will not vote on the budget schedules unless this demand is met
Parliamentarian from Karbala: We will not vote on the budget schedules unless this demand is met
2024-05-20 05:18
Shafaq News/ The representative of Karbala Governorate, Ibtisam Al-Hilali, refused on Monday to vote on the schedules of the budget law for the year 2024, unless the financial allocations to the governorates and the method of their distribution are clarified.
Al-Hilali told Shafaq News Agency, “The Council of Ministers voted in its extraordinary session on the schedules of the budget law for the year 2024, and they have not yet reached the House of Representatives, and they are expected to arrive tomorrow, Tuesday.”
She added, “The financial allocation to the governorates in the budget law for the year 2023 was not at the required level, especially Karbala, which needs approximately one trillion dinars for infrastructure and the development of roads and transportation due to its importance between the governorates and its geographical location, especially during the days of Ashura and the Arbaeen pilgrimage.”
Al-Hilali continued, “We will not vote on the budget tables in the House of Representatives if they are not clear in distributing financial allocations to the governorates and giving importance to Karbala Governorate.”
The 2024 budget, according to what Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani announced yesterday, Sunday, is 211 trillion dinars, and employee salaries for the year 2024 amount to 62 trillion dinars, while the 2023 budget amounted to 199 trillion dinars and employee salaries were 59 trillion dinars.
According to Al-Sudani, the revenues of the 2024 budget are estimated at “144 trillion and 336 billion dinars, while expenditures amount to 210 trillion and 936 billion dinars, while the deficit is 63 trillion and 599 billion dinars.”
Al-Sudani said, “The governorates’ allocations to local government programs with an investment allocation amounted to 10.633 trillion dinars in 2023, and we financed 3.333 trillion dinars, based on fundamental requests from the governorates,” adding, “The remainder of the allocation is 7.333 trillion dinars in a trust account, at the disposal of the governorate governments.”
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