Government surprise parliament submitting an appeal by 21 paragraph within the budget

Government surprise parliament submitting an appeal by 21 paragraph within the budget


 BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah

The government surprised the House by providing stabbed 21 items of 2017 budget items, including a demand for the abolition paragraph 15, and rewrite the other paragraphs.
The parliament, succeeded for the first time passing the budget unanimously, the end of last year in the time specified before the financial year ends. And pass a budget rumored atmosphere of optimism in terms of the speed of the decline of political differences that escalate on the drafting of the budget.
And threatening appeals emptied of its content budget, particularly as they affect the important items included shares, within the budget to accelerate the approval process, the petro - dollar allocations, claimed by the southern provinces, and reviewing oil licensing rounds for decades.
The government also appealed for that allocated to the provinces border ports of revenues, and the allocation of the Peshmerga , which carved out of the military budget.
The government also challenged clause stipulates stop the appointments of the three presidencies, and the proportion of staff cuts that parliament plese to 3.8 instead of 4.8.
Finance Committee began consulting for the purpose of preparing the list of challenges to confront the government in less than 15 days.

Changes flag Abadi
says MP Mohammed Halbusi, chairman of the Finance Committee (range), that " the Federal Court informed our committee in the history of 9 this month , the existence of appeals submitted by the government to 15 items from the terms of the federal budget for the 2017 law."
Halbusi He added that " the Finance Committee held three meetings during which the Legal Department of the House of Representatives to prepare a list of the Reply and send them to eliminate 23/3 hosted on
this."
The head of the Finance Committee that "challenged the government calling for the abolition of fifteen items in the budget law with an amendment to the drafting of six other items , " pointing out that "all additions and amendments to the reward parliament was the approval of the Ministerial Committee and Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi." The House passed, the beginning of December last, the 2017 budget , which amounted to 100 trillion dinars deficit estimated at 21 trillion dinars. The budget was built on the basis of export 3.75 million barrels per day , including 250 thousand from the Kurdistan region, and 300 thousand barrels of Kirkuk and is priced at $ 42 a barrel.
He MP from the Union of Forces by saying , "There are three meetings held by the parliamentary finance committee with the Prime Minister before the presentation of the Federal Budget Law for 2017 to a vote in the House of Representatives , " noting that "during these meetings we saw Abadi on additions , which won approval did not express any objections or Note on them. "
Finance Committee revealed, a few days ago, on the receipt of notification by the Federal Court to challenge the government in the 15 items within the budget bill, including deductions of employees ' salaries, loans peasants and install contract employees.

Items rejected by the government
The following highlighted items which the government challenged as valid:
1 / article (2/1) of the budget law, and states oblige the Ministry of Finance issued treasury bonds to settle the oil - producing provinces dues and natural gas to pay back their allocations of amputation and dollar amount of five dollars.
2 / Article (8 / V) that talk about specialization percentage of allocations of federal land forces of the Iraqi army to the Peshmerga forces.
3 / Article (11 V / c and d) which provides for the deletion of vacant for landlords movement of grades within the formations centrally funded, and that the appointment shall be the grades of the workforce and allocated to the Ministry of Interior to the provinces and regions liberated from terrorism, and allows separated from security institutions due to lack of joining the service as a result Apply the occupation of those areas , similar to the rest wishing Apply according controls.
4 / Article (12 / I) , which obliges ministries and departments not associated with the Ministry advance between them and the Ministry of Planning and the provincial coordination when selecting projects and issued each ministry or institution not linked to the Ministry of project distribution plan.
5 / article (14 / V) on the ministries and departments not associated with the Ministry and the provincial commitment to the Council of Ministers resolution No. (347) for the year 2015, which relates to treatments for the ongoing projects of the investment budget.
6 / Article (18 / c) Suspension of appointments in the three presidencies (the House of Representatives, the presidency of the republic, the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Prime Minister 's Office) and the agencies and departments and its affiliates. And paragraph (18 / d) , which obliges the Ministry of Finance to transfer the grades and financial allocation for those wishing a university degree in the least from the employees of the Ministry of Interior to other ministries, and is committed to the national pension board to pay the pension benefits of both was to retire without 50th fifty years of age corporate officers and general directorates self - funded.
7 / Article (24 / c) allocates 50% (fifty percent remaining) to the administrative units that have been levying fees for the implementation of service projects.
8 / Article (32 / V / f) The state ministries and departments not associated with the Ministry pay their external obligations in the Arab and international organizations.
9 / Article (35 / A) shall be exempted from fees of raw materials and components imported by the public sector companies and productivity products for the electrical and mechanical energy generation from solar, wind from all fees.
10 / Article 47 transfers all operational appropriations of the trade unions, clubs, federations and associations to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to prepare the rehabilitation of children liberated areas, widows and orphans programs.
11 / Article 48 , which obliges the federal government and the Oil Ministry to review oil licensing to modify the terms of the contracts rounds decades.
12 / Article 49 , which imposes transfers the amount of ten (10) billion dinars from the Ministry of Displacement and Migration allocations (social welfare season) to the Finance Ministry to cover the fees and interest mortgage from the mortgage bank.
13 / Article 56 , which allocates half of border crossings to maintain existing revenues by those ports according to the governorates not organized province of Law No. (21) for the year 2008 average.
14 / Article 75 of the withheld interest of farmers for the benefit of the Agricultural Bank for the first year be in accordance with the agreed ratio between the two parties.
15 / article (59) at the Ministry of Finance transfers funds from some ministries, agencies and departments and agencies
independent.

Items rewritten
and included the second appeal to recommend the lifting of Displacement and Migration and the Ministry of Electricity of Article phrase phrases (11 / III), raising the contractual service is a calculated for the purposes of the bonus and retirement (11 / VI).
The appeal also included the lifting of the term "re - Almtenseebn three presidencies of the original circles' of Article (18 / e). The lifting of the phrase "every issue to the House of Representatives for a purpose to ratify it," the article (26).
He also called for the lifting of the appeal is a "local product" of Article (26), raising the word "deficit" for the article (33), raising the term "medical equipment and supplies," the article (53).
The government describes
In this context, confirms Abdul Hussain Anbaki, an economic adviser to the prime minister, said that "these additions evacuated in the economic side , on the grounds that government is the financial and political drawn to the country." He Anbuge, told the (range), "These substances that the government made the appeal in which entail considerable financial implications need to be approved by the government because they know the financial putting."
The MPs from the southern oil - producing provinces, Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, demanded that Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi to fulfilling its promises given by the lack of appeal entitlements petrodollars before approving 2017 budget

MPs reject
MP said Faleh al - Khazali, in a joint press conference with the deputies of the three provinces and attended (range) on Monday, " the government has challenged the rights of oil - producing provinces and included issuance of treasury bonds , " adding that "this appeal to the terms of the budget Aasb in the interest of the citizen , which challenged the rights of the
people." Furthermore, MP Jamal al - Muhammadawi said that "some paragraphs of the general budget for 2017, which the government has challenged before the Federal Court, concerns the interests of large social group of people of Basra province , which represents an entitlement naturally to them. He called Muhammadawi, in a statement received (range) a copy of it yesterday, the Council of Ministers to "lack of appeal in paragraphs affecting staff segment including increased deductions from employees ' salaries 4.8 rather than 3.8."
said MP Basra , said "Cancel the paragraph concerning the transfer of certificates from the Ministry of the Interior to other ministries, and Cancel paragraph install contract holders in the Ministry of Electricity and other ministries, and paragraph calculated certificates to employees and non - contractual service staff of confirmed calculated for the purposes of the bonus, promotion and retirement unjustified and detrimental to those slides. "the 63 deputies from the four provinces oil producer, boycotted the vote on the budget, the beginning of December last , pending government approval to send what has been put forward and voted on in parliament to allocate at least $ 5.

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