Parliamentarian: We need 45 days to review the federal budget law
Parliamentarian: We need 45 days to review the federal budget law
2023-02-22 00:23
Shafaq News / A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Faisal Al-Naili announced, on Wednesday, that the House of Representatives needs 45 days to review and vote on the Federal Budget Law for the year 2023 before returning it to the government for approval.
Al-Naeli told Shafaq News agency, “We in the Parliamentary Finance Committee and the House of Representatives need a maximum of 45 days to read, discuss and make amendments to some articles and paragraphs that need to be amended in the budget law.”
And that “all files and the exchange rate of the dollar in the general budget law have been settled, and the government will send the budget law to Parliament at the beginning of next month.”
He added, “The government is serious about resolving and resolving all points of disagreement between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government before sending the budget law to parliament.”
Yesterday, Monday, First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, announced the arrival of the draft general budget law to the House of Representatives early next week, while stressing the importance of discussing it to support the poor classes and segments, employees and the food basket.
Al-Mandalawi’s media office said, in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, “The general budget bill will reach Parliament early next week, after a phone call that Al-Mandalawi made with Finance Minister Taif Sami.”
Al-Mandalawi stressed “the importance of the budget bill arriving soon to the parliament and starting to discuss its items and make the necessary amendments to it by the Finance Committee, in a way that guarantees the proper application of the government curriculum, especially supporting the poor classes and segments and ensuring the continuity of providing basic materials through the food basket, as well as securing salaries.” Staff and financial allocations required for new appointments.
And the deputy of the Kurdistan Democratic Party parliamentary bloc, Vian Dakhil, revealed, on Monday, the presence of a delegation from the region in Baghdad to discuss Kurdistan’s share of the budget and the oil and gas law, while she indicated that what actually reaches the region does not exceed 5% of its share specified in the budget.
Last Sunday, the representative of the State of Law bloc, Muhammad Al-Shammari, depended on the approval of the draft budget law for the current year to resolve the differences and outstanding issues between Erbil and Baghdad, while a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government visited last week the capital Baghdad and engaged in a round of dialogues with the ministries of finance, planning and oil to return Today again to resume discussions about the region’s share of the budget, in addition to working on the legislation of the oil and gas law and other issues.
It is noteworthy that the financial budget for the past year 2022 was not approved by the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives due to the turmoil that Iraq witnessed after the early elections in October 2021, which escalated to dangerous levels that ended with the events of the Green Zone, with armed confrontations between supporters of the Sadrist movement and the security forces, which claimed lives. Dozens and hundreds injured.
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