Member of Parliamentary Legislature: The 2020 budget has ended and the government must prepare the next
Member of Parliamentary Legislature: The 2020 budget has ended and the government must prepare the next
16/6/2020 15:03
[Baghdad_Yan]
A member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Salim Hamza, counted the draft budget budget for the year 2020 as “ending realistically.”
“There is no alternative to approving the 2020 budget, and the prime minister has the authority to spend 1/12 of the law,” Hamzah said.
He added, “The 2020 budget is over and Parliament cannot vote on it, and the government should think about preparing the budget for next year 2021.”
He indicated that “the budget is legally remaining, but on the ground it is over” due to lack of time.
The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Mohamed Saleh, had previously stressed the need to go in the short term to legislate an emergency budget, which provides financial sustainability at this stage and meets the necessary needs.
Meanwhile, member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Muhammad Sahib al-Daraji, suggested that the federal budget for 2020 will be approved for only five months.
Daraji said, “The options currently in place under the caretaker government are the payment of salaries and operational matters according to the 1/12 mechanism,” noting that “the 2020 budget will be sent to the parliament after the formation of the new government and will be approved for five months.”
He added that “the new government will review the budget before sending it to parliament,” noting that “approval of the budget will need more than a month in parliament.”
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