Legal expert: The House of Representatives has the right to extend its legislative session for 30 days to approve the budget schedules.
Legal expert: The House of Representatives has the right to extend its legislative session for 30 days to approve the budget schedules.
2025/05/09
Legal expert Ali Al Tamimi stressed on Friday the utmost importance of approving the financial budget schedules.
Al-Tamimi explained in a statement to Al-Furat News Agency that “Article 57 of the Iraqi Constitution stipulates an annual session for the Council of Representatives with two legislative chapters, but it excludes the case of discussing and approving the general budget, as it stipulates that “the legislative chapter does not end if it includes the general budget law except after voting on it.”
The legal expert stressed that this constitutional text is considered “governing” and imposes the necessity of approving budget schedules as soon as possible, due to its direct impact on “the livelihood of society” and the stability of economic and living conditions.
In a related context, Al-Tamimi pointed out that Article 57 itself allows the possibility of extending the current legislative chapter, based on a request from one of the three presidencies or with the signatures of no less than fifty members of the Council of Representatives. In this case, an extraordinary session is held, and its meetings are limited to the matters that called for this extension.
Al-Tamimi explained that the duration of the extension of the legislative chapter is limited to “only thirty days,” and the Council’s discussions and sessions during this period must be limited to “matters related to the budget only.”
The legal expert concluded his statement by emphasizing that “the budget file is important It is necessary to extend the sessions of the House of Representatives in order to accomplish this national task that the Iraqi people are waiting for.
A parliamentary source told Al-Furat News last Tuesday that the Presidency of the House of Representatives decided to end the first legislative session of the fourth legislative year on May 9th {today, Friday} in accordance with Article (57) of the Constitution and Article (22) of the House of Representatives’ internal regulations.
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