Parliament prepares the hours for the arrival of the budget and heralds the “millennium jobs”
Parliament prepares the hours for the arrival of the budget and heralds the “millennium jobs”
11-14-2022
Information/Baghdad..
There is less than two months left until the end of the current year 2022, and Iraq is still without a public financial budget, after the previous government headed by Mustafa Al-Kazemi was unable to send it to the Iraqi parliament, which reviews and approves it. Can the new government headed by Muhammad Shia’a Al-Sudani bypass The negatives that occurred as a result of the absence of the budget.
Absence of the budget
There are many reasons that led to the absence of the 2022 budget law, and there are several laws related to financial and economic aspects that are still on the shelves of parliament and have not been enacted until today.
Among the main reasons that we can identify for the absence of the budget for the year 2022 is the political dispute between the one that took place between the coordination framework and the Sadrist movement after the announcement of the elections and the issue of the largest bloc, and the subsequent failure to choose the president of the republic and head the government for more than a year.
Claims to include the 2023 budget addressing unemployment and poverty
Haider al-Rubaie, an economic researcher, stresses, “The need to include in the next budget law clear paragraphs that address the high unemployment rate of 16.5%, poverty 25% of the total population of more than 40 million people, and high inflation to 12.3%, in addition to limiting the high prices of imported goods by subsidizing the product.” the local”.
For its part, the Parliamentary Legal Committee ruled out resolving the 2023 budget within two weeks, while indicating the possibility of opening new appointments in three sectors.
Committee member Raed Al-Maliki said, in an interview followed by / information /, that “there are expectations that the budget will be sent within two weeks, and he submitted a proposal for a three-year budget that would be a medium-term budget based on Article 4 Second of the Financial Management Law, taking into account the repercussions and political and economic conditions that The country goes through it annually when approving the budget.
For his part, a member of the House of Representatives, Representative Hussein Arab, identified the parliament’s priorities within the next year’s budget in 2023, noting that “one of the parliament’s priorities is to emphasize the confirmation of government contracts and daily procedures, as well as the employment of young people.”
Budget and job grades
Despite the conflicting news and information about job grades and their numbers in the 2023 budget, member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee Nazem Al-Shibli confirmed in a statement to Al-Maaloumah, that “the 2023 budget will witness the approval and allocation of thousands of job grades that will include free lecturers and those covered by Resolution 315, which will include Approximately 176,000 job degrees for contract holders who have served more than two years or more, in addition to providing degrees through deletion and creation.”
Al-Shibli added, “All appointments will be limited to the Federal Service Council, and this will dry up the sources of corruption in the ministries in the field of appointments, as well as achieving justice and application of the correct functional standards.
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