Al-Sudani says that the budget law targets 5 priorities in Iraq
Al-Sudani says that the budget law targets 5 priorities in Iraq
2022-11-26 01:24
Shafaq News/ The Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’a Al-Sudani confirmed, on Saturday, that the draft budget law for next year targets the priorities adopted by the ministerial curriculum of his government.
This came during his chairmanship today of a meeting dedicated to discussing the draft federal budget law for the year 2023, according to a statement issued by the Sudanese media office.
The statement added that Al-Sudani stressed the need to complete the draft budget law as soon as possible, and to submit it to the House of Representatives, in order for it to enter into force without delay.
The statement quoted the Prime Minister as saying that the law targets, in its allocations, the priorities adopted by the ministerial platform, which are combating unemployment, reducing poverty rates, combating corruption, improving services, as well as reforming the economy.
Al-Sudani directed that the draft law take into account the importance of presenting infrastructure projects over other projects, in order to create an appropriate environment in the internal economy to achieve the adoption of the ministerial curriculum, provide service and make a difference that the citizen touches, in the service sector and other economic sectors.
A member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, Maeen Al-Kadhimi, stated, on Thursday, that the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’a Al-Sudani, had assigned the Ministries of Finance and Planning to expedite the preparation of the draft law for the country’s general budget for the year 2023.
And the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani, identified, at the beginning of this month, the priorities to focus on are the federal budget law for next year.
This came during his chairmanship of a meeting that included Minister of Finance Taif Sami, Minister of Oil Hayan Abdel-Ghani, Minister of Electricity Ziyad Ali Fadel, and a number of advisors, and they discussed the file of the draft federal budget law for the year 2023, and the need to expedite its preparation and send it to Parliament.
Al-Sudani directed the importance of the budget being at the level of ambition, and that it prioritize meeting the needs of citizens in terms of services, as well as taking it upon itself to effectively address the problem of electricity shortages, which greatly affected the life of citizens and the economic sectors in the country.
And the Prime Minister, Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani, had previously directed the need to prepare the federal budget law for the year 2023 as quickly as possible.
The previous government headed by Mustafa Al-Kadhimi faltered in sending the draft budget law for the year 2022 before the Iraqi Parliament dissolved itself in its previous session in preparation for the early elections that took place on the tenth of October 2021.
It is noteworthy that the financial budget for the current year 2022 was not approved by the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives due to the turmoil that Iraq witnessed after the early elections in October 2021, which escalated to dangerous levels that ended with the events of the Green Zone, with armed confrontations between supporters of the Sadrist movement and the security forces, which claimed lives. Dozens and hundreds injured.
After the end of the crisis, with the agreement of the political blocs to elect the President of the Republic and to grant confidence to the government of Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani, the latter pledged that he would present the draft federal budget law for the year 2023 as soon as possible.
And a number of specialists considered that the delay in approving the budget for the current year would negatively affect investment projects and delay ongoing projects, in addition to stopping the economic activities of the market in the country in general.
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