Parliamentary Finance: Delaying the sending of budget tables is a legal violation
Parliamentary Finance: Delaying the sending of budget tables is a legal violation
11-30-2024
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Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Al-Karawi, revealed today, Saturday, the existence of legal and constitutional violations by the government in sending the budget law to the House of Representatives.
Al-Karawi said in a statement to / Al-Maalouma / agency, “Article 77, paragraph two of the Federal Triennial Budget Law indicated that the government must send the budget tables before the end of the fiscal year,” indicating that “the government sent only one amendment to the text of the budget, which is the text of Article 12 related to the costs of extracting oil in the region.”
He added, “Not sending the schedules on time is considered a legal and constitutional violation, and if the government proceeds with amendments to the articles, there are many articles that need to be amended and to be fair to many groups,” adding, “We recorded all of these observations in the session last Tuesday during the first reading of the amendment to the budget law.”
He said, “His committee is working on re-amending the budget law and sending it to the government to work on general amendments to the law to be fair to all segments of society and address the problems in the previous budget.”
It is noteworthy that the 2024 budget revenues amounted to “144 trillion and 336 billion dinars, while expenditures amounted to 210 trillion and 936 billion dinars, with the deficit amounting to 63 trillion and 599 billion dinars.”
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