No hearings in parliament until an agreement on the budget

No hearings in parliament until an agreement on the budget

5/5/2014 0:00 

Khalidi: attendance will be binding on the members in the event of the session 
BAGHDAD - Shaima Rashid 
confirmed the decision of Parliament Muhammad Khalidi absence of any meeting of the Council pending the agreement of the political blocs about the problems in the financial budget of the state. Khalidi said in a press statement, that «the course of the current parliament will end Day 14 of the next June and attendance of members of the House of Representatives will be during this period, binding, adding that «the House of Representatives held its meeting after the agreement of the political parties on the financial budget». pointed out that «there are contacts held with all political parties to agree on the problems existing in Budget », stressing that he does not have any agreement between the political parties until now in this regard«. 
was a parliamentary source has announced that the House has so far not set any time to hold its meeting, likely to determine the date of the parliamentary session after the announcement of preliminary results of the elections to achieve consensus around. The the current parliament outgoing realistically in the 14th of April, where it began the holiday season Legislative latter, and ending of a constitutional standpoint, on June 14 next, and decided the presidency of the House of Representatives earlier in the continuation of permanence and sessions until the end of the current legislative session, in the absence of approving the budget Work will continue until the 14th of June. In the meantime, called on fellow MPs council members to attend and complete the quorum of the next meeting. In the event of an appointment held to discuss the general budget bill and passed. Was not able to the House of Representatives to now near the end of the age of its of approving the federal budget for the current year 2014 due to disagreements between the political blocs on the terms and clauses contained in the law, prompting the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to postpone the hearing normal for Parliament to notice the lack of a quorum for the session. deputy state law Iskandar and berries demanded all the political blocs to attend a meeting of the Council of Representatives for the budget in order to pass. said Tut in a statement »Sabah» did not specify any date for the next session on the Law of the budget So far, and this is borne by the Presidency of the Parliament and the heads of blocs who located it upon themselves to work for the adoption of this law is important for all classes of people and all aspects of the work of the state, including development projects and arming the army, which is locked in a fierce battle against the terror gangs », calling on all parties to attend and complete the quorum session budget, also called the Presidency to introduce budget bill on the agenda of the House of Representatives, stressing that members of the coalition of state law will be attending this meeting. formed the House of Representatives for the two committees, one triple, and the other quad of various parliamentary bloc, but they Akhvgueta to reach a solution to the budget approval as a result of the dispute the share of the Kurdistan region, which seeks the federal government to deduct part of it as a lack of commitment by the province to pay the dues of oil exports, and shall be obligated to export 400 000 barrels per day as Sticky budget law. as MP for the National Alliance, Abdul Hussein al-Yasiri not set a date for the next session of Parliament, especially the discussion of the budget Until now. Yasiri said in a statement »Sabah» that the remainder of the life of Parliament within the current session is sufficient to approve the budget bill in the event of availability of real will by the House of Representatives and the political blocs to be passed, calling for the National Alliance to attend to all of its members in order to achieve a quorum in the session the next, and the completion of the second reading of the budget law, as happened in the first reading., and continued: The National Alliance does not have a problem with the budget either of the other blocs It has reasons not to attend the confirmation hearing, both from the Kurdistan Alliance, or united, stressing that there is no more important than the draft budget now in order read especially had been previous requests for inclusion on the agenda of the parliament, to no avail.

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