Baghdad complains Council stopped the project because of the absence of 300 financial budget

Baghdad complains Council stopped the project because of the absence of 300 financial budget 


BAGHDAD / Rami Salhi 


Council announced the province of Baghdad Provincial Council, stopped 300 project is vital in the capital for not adopting Iraqi Council of Representatives of the financial budget of the country, and as pointed secretariat of Baghdad to stop the completion of projects related to the rehabilitation of some streets, gardens, parks, attributed an economist reason for the delay vote on the budget is due to the node between the House of Representatives the existence of contradictions in the political process.



A member of the provincial council, Ghalib Zamili in an interview for the "long", said that "there are a lot of projects that have been affected not to approve the budget despite the fact that the majority of the provinces approved the budget within the departments of the Executive, including Baghdad," adding that "the proportion of the secretariat of Baghdad 500 billion, including 300 billion for new projects, and to maintain a continuous 1,000 billion and the total is 1,300 billion and the share of projects due and payable. "
He Zamili that "projects that stopped achievement are among the ongoing projects and almost these projects due and payable because the majority of the projects that have been agreed upon must be paid in amounts in the form of payments or advances and thus non-adoption of the budget hit Ptlka or paralysis in a lot of joints."
And that "nearly 300 projects from projects being stalled work out in their work or if they did not stop completely, and all these projects are waiting for the new parliament, which should be put in the priorities of his adoption of the budget in order to complete projects." 
He pointed out that "the new projects that have been agreed upon are still some of them inevitably to the executive departments so that it performs contractors and companies are even direct them but unfortunately stopped all these projects not to approve the budget."
In turn, said a spokesman for the Baghdad Municipality Hakeem Abdul Zahra, in an interview for the "long", said that "a lot of new projects need to be reinforcements material in order to work out, and the lack of adoption of the budget so far, the latest confusion in the planning was available allocation of financial for these projects or not" .
He said Abdul-Zahra that "projects that fall within the districts of the municipality of the Secretariat which is the 14 municipalities have small projects such as the rehabilitation of some of the streets and parks all of these projects have not been implemented for non-adoption of the budget and disciplines weak and acted us 1 of 12." 
And that "the ongoing projects on the grounds of physical disciplines are available and that the amounts have not acted now because of the adoption of the budget will be spent, but later were not affected significantly."
He continued, "There are no statistics for the number of projects that have stopped or it happened because of the reluctance of non-adoption of the budget because there are projects related to the development of the regions and some of them related to the investment and others related to the realization of the municipality."
In the same context, an economist said Maytham defect in an interview for the "long", that "the reason for delaying the budget due to the node and political contradictions of the political process and other things that were behind the delay of the House of Representatives budget and thus delay the adoption of the general budget."
The expert added that "the budget includes part of a consumer, spending is increased from 1 to 12, a neighbor and includes salaries, wages and other but the problem in the investment side of the budget, the part of the blocking and that this disruption in the budget and the implementation of the projects will increase the rate of unemployment in the country."
And the voice of the Iraqi cabinet, in (January 15, 2014), to approve a bill the federal budget for the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2014, and forwarded to the House of Representatives, according to the provisions of Articles (61 / item and 80 first / second item) of the Constitution, taking into account some of the amendments approved by the Council, including the fact that the export of crude oil produced in Kurdistan by SOMO exclusively by multifactorial and approved with the participation of representatives of the region in the pricing committee.
It also provides for adjustments to exclude amounts decades, oil companies, the federal (16 trillion dinars) companies and the region (900 billion dinars) of sovereign expenditure and is re-calculated the share of the region on the basis of 17% of the amount of investment firms and be this paragraph permanent, also announced that the parliamentary Finance Committee in ( September 30, 2013), that the 2014 budget amounting to 174.6 trillion dinars, indicating that the bulk of which was allocated to the energy sector and security.
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, recently announced included 132 thousand degrees and careers within the budget of the year 2014, indicating that the energy and security were the most important focus of the next budget, which was sent to the Council of Ministers.
The budget of the year 2013 amounted to 138 trillion Iraqi dinars, on the basis of calculating the price of a barrel of oil at $ 90, and the amount of export of 2.0009 million barrels a day.

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