Parliamentary direction to transfer huge funds for militarization towards service ministries

[size=52]Parliamentary direction to transfer huge funds for militarization towards service ministries[/size]

[size=45]The Ministries of Interior, Defense, and the Prime Ministry, with all their institutions and bodies, including the Sunni and Shiite Endowment Bureau, the Popular Mobilization and Combating Terrorism Authority, control the largest proportion of the general budget, and more than 30%, while the salaries of these bodies are estimated at about 50% of the total salaries paid by the state monthly according to Reports and studies by economic specialists, which means that these three parties alone control a third of the budget, while all ministries, institutions and other exchange doors, including investment and services, share only two-thirds of the budget.[/size]
[size=45]For example, the budget of the Ministry of Interior in 2019 was estimated at more than 11 trillion Iraqi dinars, while the allocation of the Ministry of Health amounted to only 3 trillion, which means that the allocations of the Ministry of Interior amount to 3 times the health budget.[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Finance Committee in the dissolved parliament, Jamal Cougar, said in a statement to (Al-Mada), that “some ministries, such as the Interior and Defense, are obligated to payable contracts, such as contracts for the purchase of weapons and maintenance of aircraft and heavy weapons, which are very high prices,” noting that a second point is “These ministries’ challenges and difficulties are very great, unlike the civil ministries. The numbers of their employees are high, and their losses and damage are greater, especially and Iraq so far is a police state with terrorism and militias and many types of weapons within the Iraqi state, so the military side takes more than the civilian side.”[/size]
[size=45]Cougar stressed the need to start now to work on “transferring this money to other service ministries that benefit the citizen,” noting that “the defense and interior budget in 2014 and 2015 should not be the same in 2021 and 2022, as terrorism has receded relatively and military operations have significantly declined, so budgets must be reviewed. “.[/size]
[size=45]For his part, a member of the extension movement, Ghassan Shabib, confirms that there are plans in the movement’s programs to review the large exchange doors for what he described as “the militarization of society.”[/size]
[size=45]In an interview with Al-Mada, Shabib said, "Extension programs and independent movements are directed towards the necessity of preparing budgets that depend on the needs of the people at equal levels, away from going to one side over the other, especially since there is a very great rejection of the militarization of society by allocating large budgets to the military side, as well as to It does not tend to establish and build security and military forces on a professional basis capable of preserving Iraq and its sovereignty.”[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated that “one of the main things is to redistribute the paragraphs of the general budget and divide it correctly. Building the person is the most important, and we must start with health and services to be the largest in the budget’s share, and then agriculture and industry to kill unemployment,” stressing that “this note is on the agenda of the extension movement and the rest of the emerging movements.” “.[/size]
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