Citizen: a new government initiative to accept the claim Erbil to pass budget

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Citizen: a new government initiative to accept the claim Erbil to pass budget


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17-08-2014 02:06 PM
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Range / citizen urged the coalition, yesterday, the next government to enter negotiations with the Kurdistan region and resolve outstanding differences to facilitate passing the 2014 budget.

He called on the coalition led by the Supreme Council, Baghdad to accept the initiative of the provincial government to export 100 000 barrels of oil until the law was passed, and adoption of the basis for the calculation of our oil exports to reduce the deficit suffered by the default budget, which amounted to about 900 000 barrels per day.

Preferred it to a member of the Finance Committee that the temporary approval so they can be 'mini-budget' actual income, stressing that the caretaker government spending exceeded its powers with the investment budget.

And led political differences and security implications, which coincided with the election season legislature to postpone the adoption of the federal budget.

The dispute is between Baghdad and Erbil, forcing the region to export about 400 000 barrels per day.

He says Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, MP for the mass of the citizen, that

'there is a possibility to pass a bill the federal budget for 2014 by the new government and in cooperation with the Parliament during the coming period',

noting that 'Parliament form a temporary committee to review the budget and has submitted its initial report to the presidency of the parliament'.
Bahr al-Ulum added to'mady 'that' Parliament is expected the new government changes on the joints of the expenses that has throughout the past period and the vision of the future ', noting that' the detailed basic budget revenues Iraq is dependent on oil export '.

He said the 'oil exports in general, and during the past seven months nearly two million barrels per day, mostly from the south and central regions', calling for a 'reconsideration reading speculative exports mainly to the federal budget for the current year.'

He ruled the former minister 'for any increase in oil production for the coming months could lead to change the budget', expected to 'keep oil prices on the rates and therefore this must be taken into consideration in the formulation of the new draft budget'.

And about the government's measures required to take place during the next few days to pass the budget, called the Bahr al-Ulum federal government to 'begin consultations with the government of the Kurdistan region to accommodate its oil production by accepting the initiative of the region as a springboard to re-negotiate'.

The Government of the Territory announced, late last March, the province's readiness to export 100 thousand barrels of oil per day as of early last April, as an initiative to resolve the crisis with Baghdad.

It is noteworthy that the 'speculative ability to export oil according to the draft federal budget of 3.4 million barrels per day, while our production does not exceed the current 2.5 million barrels per day'.

He believes that 'there is a shortfall in oil exports up to 900 thousand barrels per day from what was planned in the federal budget', calling for 'reconsideration of speculative budgets on which the budget will begin'.

On the possibility to invest caretaker government budget, to make certain concessions to political opponents in the united and the Kurdistan Alliance, says Bahr al-Ulum said 'caretaker government can not take such a step and that the new budget will be presented after the formation of the next government', which they saw as' the which will resolve a lot of differences through change within the wing National Alliance '.

In the same context, the Attorney Amin Bakr, a member of the Interim Finance Committee, said that 'the new government to consult with the Kurds, Sunni and Shiite parties to pass the budget bill.'

It stresses Bakr, in a statement to'mady ', that' the new government claim corrects errors Nouri al-Maliki earlier including firing employees 'salaries Kurdistan region as a goodwill gesture', and added 'on the government to provide budget mini next few months disposal expenditures by actual revenue'.

And reveals a Kurdish lawmaker for 'a large deficit in the balance between revenue and speculative real set by the previous government', and believed that 'the best solutions is to provide the budget with mini-settlement of the expenses spent by the government of al-Maliki during the past months'.

He noted the deputy secretary-Bakr that the 'caretaker government has not acted only from the operating budget, according to the law of public debt accounted for 1/12 the size of the previous budget, but exceeded these powers to the spending of the investment budget that has been spent, including nearly 48 trillion dinars without take the approval of Parliament. '

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