The federal budget in the arena of the government for implementation after the disappearance of excuses
The federal budget in the arena of the government for implementation after the disappearance of excuses
8-8-2023
Basil Abbas Khudair
Yesterday (Monday, August 7, 2023), three important events related to the federal budget for the year 2023, which are planned to be valid for three years, met. Related to the Federal Court’s decision, which included the rejection of some appeals in form related to the unconstitutionality of articles in the Budget Law, and the third is the issuance of Issue 4731 of the Iraqi Gazette, which included in one of its paragraphs the publication of instructions in Issue (1) for the year 2023 entitled (Facilitating the implementation of the Federal Budget Law for the years 2023-2025). And whether the meeting of these three cases was purely by chance or by agreement, this means that the budget has completed all its aspects and has become obligatory, and that the implementation of what is in it has become in the arena of the federal government and through exchange units after the disappearance of all excuses, and the budget has eluded the Iraqis after they spent the year 2022 Without balancing and forcingSpending at a rate of 1/12. They also spent more than 7 months of the current year awaiting a solution to problems and cases related to the implementation of the budget, and people have interests in implementing the budget, as it includes allocations of 200 trillion dinars, and there are appointments that have been initiated for more than 800 thousand citizens, and salaries have not been paid to date, as well. It means due allowances, promotions, and increases that have not been spent for years, pending the budget, and most projects and services have stopped or been delayed due to financial allocations or the lack of ways to spend, including water, electricity, subsidies, services, and many things.
The three cases that we referred to above would remove many cases of ambiguity and ambiguity. The decision of the Federal Court related to the appeal of some budget articles settled the controversy on the subject. As a result, the appeal was accepted with 7 articles and the appeal was rejected with 6 articles. The text that allows governors to contract with developers was canceled as well. The text restricting the Council of Ministers to determine the workplaces of those with higher ranks who do not have positions has been rescinded, as the subject was considered to be within the competence of the Council and not at the request of the exempted. The court also rescinded the text authorizing the sub-committees to compensate property with amounts not exceeding 50 million dinars, and the subject was returned to its original state. The court also rescinded the text permitting the deduction of one per thousand from the total salary of state employees for the benefit of the Martyrs’ Fund, and the court did not support the deduction of one per thousand from the total salary of employees in the Interior Ministry for the benefit of the Police Martyrs Fund. the fiveThe first months of the current year, in addition to not working with the text of Article 72, which allowed the collection of 2% of the proceeds of debts, and 80% of them were distributed as incentives to the execution staff and 20% to the execution department. The deduction and its transfer to the account of the Martyrs’ Fund, and the objection to the appointment of 150 employees in the House of Representatives was rejected, and the appeal was rejected to cancel the exception of the Supreme Judicial Council and the Federal Supreme Court from the decision to stop appointments, and the text that allows university councils to contract with the private sector to hold participation in The field of building educational hospitals, exceptional laboratories, scientific factories, and others to serve primary and higher studies, scientific research and society, and among the matters that were appealed against was the text of Article 71, which obliges the government to end the management of all state institutions by proxy no later than November 30, 2023, and to stop all financial allocations and powers for agenciesAnd the Council of Ministers must send the nomination for special grades 30 days before the above date. The Federal Court also responded to the appeal submitted by the government on the text of Article 75 that includes (the date 12/31/2019 is adopted instead of the date 10/2/2019 approved by Cabinet Resolution 315 of 2019 in ministries and entities not associated with a ministry).
Prices in light of the crises the country is witnessing, most notably the inability of the Central Bank and those who stand with it to control the exchange rates of the dollar, which exceed 1,500 dinars against the dollar, while the official price is 1,320? State positions that amount to thousands, no later than the end of next November? Will the House of Representatives withdraw the administrative powers and financial allocations for those who occupy positions in the agencies? And there are many questions and inquiries regarding the subject, we hope to find answers to them, or we wait for what matters will lead to crises or settlements, without forgetting the dates of the provincial council elections, which are very close to the end of the work of the agencies?! .
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