Parliament plans to vote three landmark laws within the next two weeks
Saturday 20 March 2021 | 09:20 am
Member of Parliament, Jawad Al-Mousawi, confirmed, on Saturday, the parliament’s intention to vote on three articulated laws during the next two weeks’ session, the most prominent of which is the law to dissolve the House of Representatives .
Moussawi said, “The political activity in the House of Representatives is unprecedented in its history, as it attests to the readiness to vote on three Read more…
MP Al-Salihi announces that there has been “initial approval” on reducing the dollar’s price
Posted, 2021-03-20
On Friday (March 19, 2021), MP Arshad Al-Salihi confirmed that no final agreement had been reached on the budget yet, while announcing that there had been “initial approval” on reducing the dollar’s price.
Salhi said in a press statement, “Since one o’clock in the afternoon in the House of Representatives and the agreement on the budget Read more…
Deputy: The budget voting session will be held this afternoon
2021/3/20 12:08
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Representative Aisha Al-Masari confirmed, on Saturday, that Parliament will hold its session at one in the afternoon in order to approve the 2021 budget.
Al-Masari said, “Parliament will hold its session at one o’clock Read more…
Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 3-19-2021
3-19-2021 Newshound Guru Jeff Article: “Deputy: Agreement to pass the Federal Court law today and pass the budget Saturday” Pass the budget Saturday…4 weeks ago I told you you were not going to see the budget until Saturday the 20th. Boom! Nailed it! Budget Saturday because they don’t want you to see it. Remember I told you they’re going to change the rate roughly 24 hours later… Read more…
Al-Abadi calls on Parliament to reconsider the exchange rate of the dinar
2021-03-19 | 02:03
On Friday, the head of the victory coalition Haider al-Abadi called on the House of Representatives to reconsider the exchange rate of the dinar in order to control inflation.
“The reduction in the exchange rate of the dinar has negatively affected citizens, especially those with limited income,” Al-Abadi Read more…
Kurdistan Democratic Party announces the agreement to pass the budget
03-19-2021 04:52 PM
On Friday, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Bashar al-Kiki, announced that a political agreement had been reached to pass the budget.
Al-Kiki said in a statement, “We congratulate all the Iraqis Read more…
Representative sources: Postponing the session to nine in the evening and the Presidency of Parliament prefers this option with the budget
03/19/2021 18:27:43
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} Parliamentary sources suggested that the parliament session be postponed to nine o’clock today, Friday, due to the continuing dialogues and discussions on the draft federal budget bill for 2021.
The sources told {Euphrates News}: “There are no indications for the parliament session to take place at present, with the Kurdish blocs insisting Read more…
Parliamentary Finance meets with Kurdish representatives about the budget … and a last resort
03/19/2021 17:44:14
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Parliamentary Finance Committee met, on Friday, with the Kurdish representatives on the budget, while it indicated that another option would be proposed.
“The Parliamentary Finance Committee held a meeting today, Friday, with Kurdish representatives to discuss the formula established by the committee in the federal budget after taking the remarks of members of parliament Read more…
A parliamentary approach to adjust the exchange rate and include contracts in the budget
2021-03-19
Today, Friday, the National Bond bloc announced a parliamentary move to adjust the exchange rate and include contracts in the budget.
The representative of the bloc, Faleh Khazali, said with a number of deputies in a press conference held in Parliament, that “300 thousand contracts in the Ministry of State and lecturers have canceled their contracts Read more…
Deputy: These are the scenarios for voting on the expected budget today
3/19/2021 15:04
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MP Jamal Fakher, from the Alliance of Walkers, confirmed today, Friday, that the meetings are still continuing, as a meeting is now held between the Presidency of the House of Representatives and the heads of the blocs to resolve the remaining points of contention, indicating that the picture is still blurry and all options are on the table regarding resolving Read more…
A parliamentary bloc announces a boycott of the session to vote on the budget and reveals the reasons
3/19/2021 15:13
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Today, Friday, the National Approach bloc announced its boycott of the budget voting session, because it included economic and social catastrophic paragraphs and the inequality of the central and southern governorates compared to the region.
The bloc said in a statement, “Because the parliament did not respond to the fundamental amendments that we demanded, therefore we announce our boycott Read more…
Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 3-18-2021
3-18-2021 Newshound Guru Jeff Article: “Kurdistan Regional Government announce the suspension of official working hours on the occasion of Nowruz holiday” This is a federal holiday – country wide…Don’t let them fool you. It’s not just a holiday. There’s bigger things happening during this period…on the 21st they will have the ISX shutdown…just so you know that was the same official holiday Kuwait utilized…for Iraq it will be Sunday morning round 7-8am their time when they change the rate…it’s got to be a Sunday… history is repeating itself and Iraq is walking in Kuwait’s footsteps… Read more…
Iraqi Dinar/US Dollar auction results 3-18-2021
The results of the foreign currency sale window on Thursday 3/18/2021, and executed today
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Prompt The House of Representatives raises its meeting to tomorrow, Friday, noon, to complete the budget
03/18/2021 19:36:38
{Politics: Al Furat News} The House of Representatives raised its session to tomorrow Friday and convened at one o’clock in the afternoon to complete the fiscal budget law for 2021.
The Council voted in its session today on the First Amendment Law Read more…
Iraq possesses about 60% of global sulfur reserves
03/18/2021 06:53:07
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The General Director of the General Company for Mishraq Sulfur, Abdel Moneim Naif Abush Al-Jubouri, estimated Iraq’s reserves of sedimentary sulfur at more than half of the world’s reserves. Al-Jubouri said in a press interview, “The reserves of the Mishraq 1, 2 and 3 fields in Nineveh Governorate are estimated at 354 million tons of the world’s total reserves Read more…
Economist: The corruption of the currency auction is behind the failure to demand a decrease in the dollar exchange rate
Thursday 18 March 2021 | 10:36 a.m.
The economic expert, Ihssan Al-Kanani, said that corruption in the currency auction made politicians shirk their supervisory duties and throw the ball into the government’s court about controlling the exchange rate of the dollar against the Iraqi dinar .
Al-Kinani said that “most of the private banks are affiliated with political parties Read more…
A deputy sets an expected date for returning the exchange rate up to 1200 dinars and sets a single condition
THURSDAY, 18-03-2021, PM 4:56
On Thursday, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Jamal Cougar, identified 3 reasons preventing the return of the dollar’s exchange rate to its previous value of about 1200 Iraqi dinars against the US dollar, while noting that the International Monetary Fund did not impose the exchange rate.
Cougar said in a televised interview, “The International Monetary Fund Read more…
Al-Fath: The government bears all the economic effects resulting from the ill-considered exchange rate decision
2021-03-18
On Thursday, the Al-Fateh Alliance carried the government the total economic consequences of the decision to raise exchange rates, which it described as “ill-considered.”
“The Al-Fateh Alliance is still insisting not to vote on the budget if the current exchange rates are not reduced and brought back to normal,” said a member Read more…
MP for Badr Uday Abu El-Jon reveals a final agreement on the budget and the law of the Federal Court
2021-03-18
Deputy for the Badr Parliamentary Bloc Uday Shaalan Abu El-Jon revealed, on Thursday, that tomorrow, Friday, a session will be held to vote on the draft budget law, while he indicated agreement on a formula related to passing the Federal Court law today.
Al-Shaalan said in a press interview, “The political forces have agreed Read more…
New job ranks in the budget .. The Finance Committee: its obstacles are political, not technical
3/18/2021 14:44
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The Parliamentary Finance Committee described, on Thursday, the budgetary obstacles more “political” than technical, while it revealed the addition of functional degrees in the budget.
Committee reporter Ahmed Al-Saffar said, according to the official agency, that “investment is delayed, unemployment increases and continues, and poverty increases daily and there are other social effects as well. It is assumed that there will be a movement as soon as possible to set a session to vote Read more…
