Parliamentary disputes return with the implementation of the Food Security Law imminent

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[size=52]Parliamentary disputes return with the implementation of the Food Security Law imminent[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Saif Abdullah[/size]
[size=45]Days after enacting the Food Security Law in the House of Representatives, the law oscillates between supporters and opponents, parliamentary circles welcomed the legislation of the law, while other circles revealed a great waste of public money.[/size]
[size=45]The law will enter into force after approval by the President of the Republic, as stipulated in one of its articles, which necessitated its subsequent publication in the Official Gazette.[/size]
[size=45]Excess money[/size]
[size=45]In this regard, KDP member Mahdi Abdul-Karim confirmed that the emergency security law and the governorates' quotas in it are surplus funds that have nothing to do with the budget law.[/size]
[size=45]Abdul Karim said in an exclusive interview with (Al-Mada) that "the allocations included in the emergency security law will be for the necessary needs and for the conduct of daily and important matters until the approval of the budget law."[/size]
[size=45]Abdul Karim added, "The money that has been allocated to the governorates in the Food Security Law is a special need, whether it is for trade or for electricity, and the rest are considered suspended projects."[/size]
[size=45]Waste of public money[/size]
[size=45]In turn, a member of the House of Representatives from Basra Governorate, Zahra Al-Bajari, confirmed that the funds that were allocated in the emergency support law are the funds of the southern governorates.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Bajari said in an exclusive interview with Al-Mada that "the emergency support law and the money that came in it are the money of the southern governorates, as it is the difference in oil prices, which has witnessed a significant increase in the current period and thus provided financial liquidity to the government."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Bajari added, "The funds were supposed to be approved in the Food Security Law through the 2022 budget law," noting that "these amounts that were included in the emergency security law, amounting to 25 trillion, are a surplus of what was spent in the 2021 budget."[/size]
[size=45]She explained, "These funds are mainly allocated to certain matters without oversight and without final accounts, and therefore they are considered waste."[/size]
[size=45]The amount is too big[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the researcher in economic affairs, Nabil Jabbar Al-Ali, confirmed that the amount of money that was allocated in the emergency security law for the governorates is a good number.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Ali said in an exclusive interview with (Al-Mada), that “what has been allocated to the development projects of the regions for the governorates not connected to a region, as well as the petro-dollar funds and even the Dhi Qar Fund and the reconstruction of the liberated governorates amounted to 10 trillion dinars, which is not small, but rather sufficient to establish nearly 10,000 schools. And enough to establish nearly 200 hospitals.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "These allocations are not the only ones mentioned in the Food Security and Development Law, but rather they are additional, and the main allocations are also equivalent to approximately 20 trillion and part of them are to complete previous projects, and the food security allocation is for new projects."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Ali pointed out that "the allocated amount is very large, and even the governorates may not be able to spend it completely, which is what we are accustomed to every year, as the governorates always take the initiative to return the money to the state coffers."[/size]
[size=45]On Wednesday (June 8, 2022), the Iraqi parliament voted to legislate the emergency support law for food security and development, which was prepared by the Parliamentary Finance Committee.[/size]
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