Parliamentary Finance: Routine procedures for two ministries contributed to delaying the implementation of the budget
Parliamentary Finance: Routine procedures for two ministries contributed to delaying the implementation of the budget
2023-08-01 04:42
Shafaq News/ A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Yahya Al-Muhammadi revealed today, Tuesday, the existence of administrative and routine procedures from the Ministries of Finance and Planning that contributed to an “unintentional” delay in implementing the budget law, calling on the two ministries to expedite the completion of their work in this regard.
Al-Mohammadi told Shafaq News agency, “An unintentional delay in completing the instructions of the budget law by the Ministries of Finance and Planning contributed to the delay in implementing the budget law in ministries and state institutions.”
Al-Muhammadi added, “We asked the Parliamentary Finance Committee from the two ministries to expedite the publication of the budget instructions,” noting that “administrative and routine procedures delayed the implementation of the budget law, and there is no intention in that.”
And the deputy added, “The Ministry of Finance will, in the coming days, publish the instructions of the budget law and send them to the ministries and state institutions.”
And the Iraqi parliament voted, at dawn today, Monday, June 12, on the federal budget law for the years 2023, 2024, 2025, after discussions that lasted for five days.
The value of the current year budget is 197 trillion and 828 billion Iraqi dinars (about 152.2 billion dollars), with a total deficit of 63 trillion dinars (48.3 billion dollars), while the items of the 2023 and 2024 budgets have not been published.
On June 21, 2023, the President of the Republic, Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, approved the Federal Public Finance Law.
Last July, the Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in Iraq) issued a state order regarding some articles of the country’s tripartite financial budget law.
The state order included suspending the implementation of the following articles (Article 28 / Fourth: A – B), (57 / First – C), (65 / Second), (70 / Second), (71) and (75) of Law No. ( 13) for the year 2023 (the federal general budget of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal years (2023 – 2024 – 2025) until a decision is made on the constitutional case filed before this court to challenge its constitutionality, registered in the number (153 / federal / 2023).
Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani had requested the issuance of a state order against Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi regarding the above articles, according to the statement issued by the Federal Court.
Sabhan Al-Mulla Jiyad, Advisor to the Prime Minister for Political Affairs, suggested last June that the government would challenge some of the budget articles.
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