In the budget law .. Parliamentary warnings about articles that allow the acquisition of state land
In the budget law .. Parliamentary warnings about articles that allow the acquisition of state land
2/13/2021 10:25
[Baghdad-Where]
Members of the House of Representatives warned, on Saturday, that not deleting two articles in the 2021 budget could open the door to manipulation, fraud and corruption on the state’s lands.
In an interview with the official newspaper, Ali Saadoun, the representative of the Saeron Alliance, confirmed that “Articles (42-41) of the draft budget law allow the sale of state-owned agricultural lands to those who have the right to dispose of them.”
Saadoun added that “the draft law has many problems that complicate the process of passing it, which is the disagreement over the clauses and paragraphs of wages, contracts and lecturers.”
He pointed out that “the most prominent obstacle is the difference between Baghdad and Erbil regarding the share of the Kurdistan region in the budget, and the payment of what Kurdistan owes to the central government.”
And he indicated that “his coalition has conditions to participate in the vote on the budget, which is that it be a fair budget that does not oppress any province at the expense of the other, and that wealth be distributed fairly and equally among the people.”
For his part, the head of the committee monitoring the implementation of the parliamentary government program, Hazem Al-Khalidi, stated that “the 2021 draft budget included disastrous paragraphs, including articles (41-42).” And professionals in the acquisition of public money. ”
He noted that “these materials lead to the analysis that there is a plan to strip the state and the Iraqi people of their public property and the sources of their wealth and strategic infrastructure and turn them into private ownership.”
In turn, the head of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Water and Marshlands, Salam Al-Shammari, said, “The two paragraphs (41-42) in the budget affect the prestige of the state, so we asked members of the Finance Committee to delete these paragraphs in order to preserve state property and not tamper with agricultural lands.
Al-Shammari pointed out, “These paragraphs will make agricultural lands vulnerable to corruption and corrupt people, so we will not allow the sale of agricultural lands, and these paragraphs cannot be passed inside the parliament and that the lands remain as they are in order to preserve public money and not to tamper with the state’s public property.”
On the other hand, the second deputy speaker of Parliament, Bashir Al-Haddad, confirmed that “there is a great convergence of views between Baghdad and Erbil, and the discussions of the region’s delegation with the Parliamentary Finance Committee were characterized by frankness, transparency and seriousness.”
Al-Haddad indicated, “The region has submitted all data, numbers and information to the federal government, and a successful and fruitful meeting has been held between the Federal Office of Financial Supervision and the Office of Supervision in the region.”
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