Economist: Doubts surround approval of 2025 budget schedules due to elections
Economist: Doubts surround approval of 2025 budget schedules due to elections
2025/03/01
Economic expert Abdul Rahman Al Mashhadani said today, Saturday, that doubts surround the approval of the 2025 budget schedules in Iraq, due to the approaching date of the elections this year.
Al-Mashhadani explained in his interview with {Euphrates News} that “the elections may affect the approval of the budget to avoid exploiting it for electoral purposes as happened in previous years.”
Al-Mashhadani added, “It is likely to rely on the 2024 budget schedules, with the continuation of allocating financial shares to ministries as they were last year, which amounted to 211 trillion dinars.”
He pointed out that “there is difficulty in providing the necessary funds or spending them within these specified amounts in light of the current economic conditions.”
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