Parliamentarian: There are many violations in the budget law that prevent its approval
Parliamentarian: There are many violations in the budget law that prevent its approval
2023-05-17 06:20
Shafaq News/ Independent MP Hadi Al-Salami considered, on Wednesday, that the Parliamentary Finance Committee violated the law by holding a session with the government to discuss the budget law, indicating that there are many irregularities in the budget.
Al-Salami told Shafaq News agency, “The Parliamentary Finance Committee violated the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives because of holding meetings to discuss the budget law outside the parliament building.”
And he indicated that “according to the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives, members of the House are entitled to attend committee meetings, and the meeting of the Finance Committee in the Guest House of the Council of Ministers was an obstacle to the attendance of members of Parliament and participation in the meetings of the Finance Committee and discussing the budget law.”
He pointed out that “the budget law contains a number of legal and constitutional violations, including the reason for the delay in sending it from the Council of Ministers to the House of Representatives and not sending the final accounts for previous years.”
Al-Salami stressed that “the government also violated the financial management law because of the percentage of deficit in the budget law and did not send detailed tables regarding the budget law.”
He added, “There is a general tendency to vote on the budget law, provided that legal violations are overcome by reducing the deficit rate and amending some articles of the budget law.”
Last March, the Iraqi Council of Ministers sent the tripartite budget law to Parliament, but so far the law has not been included in the agenda of parliamentary sessions.
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