Representatives decision confirms the united efforts to ensure the presence of the Kurds sessions to

Representatives decision confirms the united efforts to ensure the presence of the Kurds sessions to discuss budget



Wednesday, 12 March / March 2014 17:51

Twilight News / confirmed decision Mohammed al-Khalidi leader of the coalition are united Wednesday that work is under way to find a consensus to complete the quorum for the session next Sunday and read the first reading of the budget bill, referring to the united efforts to ensure the presence of the Kurdistan Alliance parliamentary sessions.


And arrived in the draft budget to the House of Representatives over a month ago, but could not be discussed due to deep differences on them and the House of Representatives for its boycott.

Reported budget in the presidency of the parliament's agenda for the House of Representatives is discussed in on Sunday and Tuesday.

Khalidi said "Twilight News" that seeks to achieve a united political consensus for approving the budget among all the political blocs, pointing to the lack of interest for the Kurds not to attend the meetings of the budget.

It is likely that the Kurds are boycotting sessions of the House of Representatives to discuss the budget for the opposition to its terms and say it includes sanctions against the Kurdistan Region after the government included a clause stipulating to deduct part of the share of Kurdistan if the latter did not comply with the export of 400 thousand barrels of oil per day in favor of the federal government.

What is more difficult to discuss the county budget Congress coalition united parliament sessions weeks ago to protest against the military operations in Anbar.

Khalidi added that the parliament session will be dedicated Sunday to read a first reading of the budget law and the hearing next Tuesday for the second reading, and then set a date to vote on them.

He pointed out that work was underway to find a consensus to complete the quorum for Sunday's session and not to repeat the scenario of the previous sessions.

Usually delayed Iraq weeks and sometimes months to approve the financial budget for the country as a result of the weakness of the joints in the state administration and bureaucracy as well as the differences that appear during the discussion in the House of Representatives.

He was president of the executive and the legislature have exchanged harsh accusations about the delay in approving the budget with the passage of the country's financial approximately 10 weeks of the new financial year.

He said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that he would go ahead in the disbursement of the budget without waiting for approval in Parliament.

Najafi but declined to do so and said that any amounts acted outside the legal framework is the embezzlement of public money and accused al-Maliki of ignorance laws after the latter was considered that the parliament has lost its legitimacy.

The figures indicate that the size of the discretionary budget in 2014 exceeds 150 billion dollars, the largest on Iraq. The current year's budget was 118 billion dollars.

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