Lawsuit filed against Al-Sudani and the Minister of Finance due to the delay in the budget schedules.
Lawsuit filed against Al-Sudani and the Minister of Finance due to the delay in the budget schedules.
2025-08-03 04:29
Shafaq News – Baghdad
MP Ahmed Majeed, representing the Ishraqat Law bloc, announced on Sunday that he had filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Judicial Council against Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Finance Minister Taif Sami, over the government’s delay in submitting the general budget law schedules to the House of Representatives.
Majeed told Shafaq News Agency, “The government has been in office for more than half a year and has not sent the budget tables to parliament, despite this being a legal and constitutional obligation.” He noted that “this delay has caused significant harm to various state institutions and disrupted their work.”
The MP called on the government to “expedite the dispatch of the schedules as soon as possible in order to remedy the damage caused by this delay and enable Parliament to fulfill its oversight and legislative role on this vital issue.”
The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed on Friday that the government’s delay in submitting the 2025 budget schedules to Parliament for ratification constitutes a legal violation. While anticipating that the schedules will not be submitted soon, the committee called on the government to begin preparing a draft 2026 budget law.
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