Al-Sari: The proposal to amend the electoral law targets the regime… and reveals important details about the 2024 budget {expanded}
Al-Sari: The proposal to amend the electoral law targets the regime… and reveals important details about the 2024 budget {expanded}
03/15/2024
The head of the State Forces parliamentary bloc, Faleh Al-Sari, considered the proposal to amend the electoral law “targeting the political system,” revealing “important details regarding the 2024 budget schedules.”
Al-Sari said in an interview with the Ramadan program {Before Suhoor} broadcast on Al-Furat satellite channel after midnight, “There is a proposal to amend the election law, and this targets the political system and stability in the political process, and we rule out its passage.”
He added, “There is no electoral law that guarantees multiple constituencies, and Saint-Lego exists within multiple constituencies.”
Regarding the fiscal year of 2024, Faleh Al-Sari, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, explained, “The 2024 budget contains no texts, only tables, and not like the 2023 budget, which contains texts.”
He stated that “the 2024 schedules depend on the general allocations for 2023, and they differ greatly because the volume of revenues and expenditures depend on last year, and the 2024 budget may exceed its previous expenditures and may reach 300 trillion dinars, with a difference of 100 trillion,” noting that “expenses can be reduced by excluding projects, increasing the volume of revenues and distributing Projects over several years and reducing the gap between the two years,” stressing that “we have not yet received the schedules from the government.”
He promised, “The decisions of the Federal Supreme Court are binding on all authorities and no one can override them,” noting that “the solution regarding the salaries of employees in the Kurdistan region is to go towards the localization of the region’s salaries, and they say that the defect in the branches of the federal banks in Kurdistan is on its way to being addressed.”
He believed that “the work and performance of the Financial Supervision Bureau is not satisfactory, and we estimate it at 70%,” adding that “the loophole and defect in financial oversight is the lack of referral to the judiciary after investigating the accused.”
He stressed, “The automation of customs must be activated as the government is doing now, but there is an obstacle from employees and customs clearance entities – which he did not name – that do not want automation.”
Al-Sari pointed out that “there are luxury items imported in huge quantities that are not commensurate with the volume of practical spending, and small customs fees are paid for their entry.”
He revealed, “There was a deliberate disconnection of the Internet at the ports to disrupt customs automation, and the government must work hard to confront this sabotage.”
Al-Sari, who belongs to the Muthanna Governorate, promised the Jumima border crossing in Muthanna with Saudi Arabia that it is “like a dream for the people of the governorate.”
He added, “In a previous visit to the {current} King of Saudi Arabia, I requested the opening of the port, and the former Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir directed me to follow up, and the minister promised to open the port after the opening of Arar.”
He stressed that “Saudi Arabia promised to prepare the infrastructure for the port and implement what is required of it, and this conversation took place 6 months ago,” revealing the intention to “form a delegation to visit the port and address the government, especially the Border Ports Authority, which has completed its procedures in this regard.”
Al-Sari stressed that “there is great Saudi readiness to open the port and there will be a new economic situation for Muthanna,” noting that “Muthanna leads the provinces in the size of national investment projects.”
He believed that “Minister of Finance, Taif Sami, is a woman with the characteristics of a man and has knowledge of her work. She has experienced all the details of budgets since 2006. She is successful in managing the budget and was more successful in her previous position as Director General of the Budget Department than in the current position of minister, given that she began to take on the political role in the ministerial position.”
I go on to say, “But the question for the Integrity Commission is: Where is it in following up on and recovering money from Zuhair and other corrupt people? It is shameful that the recovery amounts do not fit the size of what was stolen, despite all the governmental and parliamentary support for its work.”
He stressed that “the Central Bank of Iraq did not succeed in overcoming the dollar exchange rate crisis.”
