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[rtl]Baghdad / NINA / Newspapers issued in Baghdad today, Monday, the ninth of March, followed the budget deficit and its impact on the salaries of employees and retirees, and the continuous efforts to assign a new Prime Minister ..

Al-Zaman newspaper in its talk about the budget deficit and the increase in expenditures and low revenues, she pointed to The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Haitham Al-Jubouri, said: “There is a deficit in the federal budget, and any increase in this deficit represents a significant negative indication of increasing expenditures and declining revenues, and what happened in 2020 from 2019 is a very large increase in expenditures and a significant decrease in the amount of revenue, whether oil Or others. "

Al-Jubouri pointed out: "The percentage of the deficit may reach 35 percent of the total expenses, and this is a problem that needs to be addressed quickly." Noting: "The total expenditures of the 2020 budget are estimated at 165 trillion dinars and the size of the financial deficit is around 56 trillion dinars."

The newspaper quoted the words of the deputy head of the Iraqi Forces Alliance bloc Raad Dahlaki: "The salaries of employees, retirees and contracts are a red line, and they cannot be touched."

Al-Dahlaki stressed: "The government is obligated to provide salaries and address its problems away from the livelihood of the simple citizen."

As for the newspaper / Al-Zawraa, which is issued by the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, the Finance Committee held the resigned government responsible for not approving the 2020 budget, noting that it bore a financial burden of 10 trillion dinars.

It quoted the statement of the committee member, Jamal Couger: "There are no real figures for the budget, for all the numbers that announce speculative."

She added: "The sub-committee within the Finance Committee, which is called the Strategic Committee for Re-arranging the Budget from Items to Budget Programs and Performance, reviewed the first draft of the Budget Law 2020, which was submitted by the ministries to the Ministry of Planning and the Budget Directorate in the Ministry of Finance, where it was collected What was requested from the ministries, the deficit was 48 trillion dinars. "

He added: "The relevant parliamentary committees met with the relevant authorities such as the Ministry of Planning and Finance, and the deficit was reduced to 32 trillion dinars, and there was serious work to reduce it further."

Cougar added: "The packages of reforms launched by the resigned Prime Minister burdened the government with very large financial burdens, especially the return of the dismissed, the appointment of owners of contracts and daily wages, and giving authority to the provinces that have demonstrations by appointment."

Cougar continued: "These reform packages speculate that their costs will exceed 10 trillion dinars as salaries only." It has powers to send the budget to the House of Representatives. "

The newspaper / Al-Sabah, which is issued by the Iraqi Media Network, continued to follow-up on the efforts to nominate a new prime minister .. And

she said in this regard: "The Alliance / Walkers / criticized the political blocs' insistence on naming a prime minister according to their own measurements in order to meet their narrow interests."

The deputy of the Alliance / Riyadh / Al-Masoudi coalition said, according to Al-Sabah: "Some political blocs seek to choose a prime minister for their personal dimensions and interests, as the narrow desires have caused problems within the political arena."

Al-Masoudi added: "The term pleasing political blocs and components does not exist in the constitution, as everyone must abide by the constitutional text and not overlook it, in addition to the internal system that has been approved."

He explained: "The Prime Minister is responsible for the executive aspects of the state and is not responsible for the blocks and components, and therefore he is not responsible for the interests of those forces."

Al-Masoudi continued: "The constitution contains some gaps, and the Federal Court should consider it in order to address it," noting that "the parliament violated the constitution by not holding the voting session on the cabin of Muhammad Allawi." / End[/rtl]

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