Launching the last batch of “food security” funds for governorate projects

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[size=52]Launching the last batch of “food security” funds for governorate projects[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/Bright news[/size]
[size=45]The new government is preparing to release the last batch of the emergency food security and development support law allocations, which will go to the governorates. Thus, Iraq turns the page of this exceptional law, hoping that the budget will be approved as soon as possible.[/size]
[size=45]The head of the Finance Committee, Mahasin Hamdoun, said in a statement to Al-Mada that "the amounts of the emergency support law for food security and development are 25 trillion dinars."[/size]
[size=45]Hamdoun added, "Most of the funds were distributed to the beneficiaries, and only the funds for the development of the regions and governorates remained."[/size]
[size=45]She pointed out that "a small part of the governorates and regions' sums were spent," explaining that "the reason for the delay is that the governorates submitted their projects without submitting costs."[/size]
[size=45]Hamdoun stressed that "the Minister of Finance in the previous government requested the submission of project components, although this is outside his competence."[/size]
[size=45]And she reported, "A request was submitted to the Accounting Department in the Ministry of Finance in order to disburse the allocations of the governorates, in order to spend them on the listed projects."[/size]
[size=45]For his part, a member of the committee, Jamal Cougar, stated that "Parliament has followed up the process of disbursing the funds allocated in the Food Security and Development Law, and it is continuing this work based on its oversight role."[/size]
[size=45]Cougar continued, "Most of the money that was in the law has been spent on its doors, represented by about 18 trillion dinars, and the rest will go to the current government, especially with regard to the shares of the provinces."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "the money that was spent was granted at the time to the Ministry of Commerce in order to improve and purchase the ration card items, purchase the local and imported wheat crop and watermelon to enhance food security, pay foreign debts for the Ministry of Electricity, convert administrative lecturers into contracts, and return voided contracts from the security and military agencies." .[/size]
[size=45]And Cougar stated, "The political blocs were in the past, and because of the delay in forming the government, they wanted to go to the legislation of a new law similar to food security in order to keep pace with the increase in public spending."[/size]
[size=45]He explained, "The House of Representatives is currently able to legislate the budget law after the government sends it, as it has full powers and is able to send all projects, including the budget."[/size]
[size=45]Cougar stressed that "the salaries of employees, as well as ongoing projects, will not be affected, even if the budget is approved after the beginning of next year."[/size]
[size=45]He stated, "The Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019 deals with the issue of budget delays by making public spending on the basis of the last budget at a monthly rate."[/size]
[size=45]Cougar continues, "The budget delay greatly affects public life, as it is not only related to securing salaries and ongoing projects, but there are many sectors that have been affected by this delay."[/size]
[size=45]He noted that "22 million citizens were affected by the delay in the budget law, and this figure represents the categories of workers in the private sector and the unemployed."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “those who receive salaries from the state do not exceed 3 million and 270 thousand people,” noting that “these salaries, if we say that each salary is shared by 6 people who make up one family, the beneficiaries of them do not exceed 20 million people.” .[/size]
[size=45]Cougar concluded, "Iraq has abundant financial resources, but it cannot benefit from it in the absence of the budget law for the current year, and we fear that the matter will extend to more than that."[/size]
[size=45]The ministerial curriculum of the government of Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani included a number of paragraphs, the most important of which was to expedite the adoption of the budget law for the next year and to benefit from the financial abundance achieved in development projects.[/size]
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