Budget meetings collide with contentious paragraphs and insistence on approving it this week

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[size=52]Budget meetings collide with contentious paragraphs and insistence on approving it this week[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]The Parliamentary Finance Committee announced that the discussions on the budget had reached the controversial articles, pointing out that the most prominent of them is related to the share of the Kurdistan region and the provinces, expected to be completed and presented for voting during the current week, indicating that the total amounts of the law will remain as they are without making amendments to them, due to the agreement politician.[/size]
[size=45]A statement by the House of Representatives stated that the Finance Committee held a meeting yesterday to complete the vote on the draft budget law.[/size]
[size=45]Committee member, Representative Mustafa Al-Karawi, said, "The Finance Committee continues to hold its sessions on the budget and continues to vote on the paragraphs."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Karawi continued, "Most of the paragraphs in the government project have been voted on, and there is little left, but they are related to political differences."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "The draft law is of a technical nature, but it is strange that there are those who are trying to involve it in political dialogues, and this is not true."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Karawi indicated that “discussions on the budget should come in a calm manner, and there can be no rush at the expense of the public interest.”[/size]
[size=45]And he believes that “any mistake that we may make because of the law will have an impact on it for the next three years, given that the budget is planned for this period.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Karawi stressed that "when the committee received the project on the twenty-eighth of last month, it held meetings with ministers and governors, as it began its tasks according to the priorities available to it."[/size]
[size=45]And he stressed, "The committee's plan, according to what was agreed upon with its presidency, includes starting with non-controversial paragraphs, so that members will not be preoccupied with controversial paragraphs that may need a political decision."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Karawi indicated that “the committee has finished most of the non-controversial paragraphs, and it has reached a discussion on the paragraphs related to the share of the Kurdistan region and its debts, as well as the entitlements of the provinces.”[/size]
[size=45]And he reported, "There are governorates that demanded an increase in their shares in the budget, especially those described as poor and suffering from deprivation as a result of not having oil resources or border outlets such as Babel and Diwaniyah."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Karawi stressed that "discussions on the budget may require some time, but it will not take long, but we will finish it soon and put it to the vote."[/size]
[size=45]And he goes on to say that “members of the committee are trying to find out the real numbers that were mentioned in the budget regarding the share of the Kurdistan region, especially since the project came with 12.6% after excluding sovereign and ruling expenditures, with the addition of other amounts.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Karawi believed, "The discussion on the budget law in a transparent manner conveys messages of reassurance to everyone that the political process is proceeding successfully so that we do not face obstacles in passing it."[/size]
[size=45]And he talked about "the committee's endeavor to deal with the budget in a clear and transparent manner, and to respect the political agreement, provided that everyone knows its content."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Karawi went on to say that “the law came with sums for the development of the regions, amounting to 2.5 trillion dinars, and there were claims to double it or make it 5 trillion, and some demanded that it be 8 trillion dinars.”[/size]
[size=45]And he believed, "The settlement of the regional development file depends on the space granted to us within the Finance Committee in the transfer procedure between the doors."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Karawi went on, to «the importance of this transfer being studied in a way that enables the governors to implement their projects during the remaining period of the year, given that many of the draft law on emergency support for food security and development did not take full part in the work, and therefore it is necessary to obtain a balance between previous projects. And the new ones so that we do not stand in front of the accumulation of maintenance amounts at the expense of other sectors.[/size]
[size=45]For his part, another member of the committee, Jamal Cougar, stated that "discussions on the law have reached their final stages, and the draft, in its final form, will soon be submitted to the Presidency of Parliament in order to present it to a vote."[/size]
[size=45]Cougar added, "The political issues have been settled within the agreement between the federal government and the Kurdistan region, and there will be nothing new that delays the adoption of the law."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "The vote on the law may take place during the current week, after completing all logistical issues."[/size]
[size=45]And Cougar indicated, “The State Administration Coalition obligated the Finance Committee not to make amendments to the budget that would reduce its amounts, given that this coalition is looking for government support and enabling it to proceed with service projects.”[/size]
[size=45]And he stressed, "All dialogues regarding the budget are proceeding in the right direction, with the presence of political will that emphasizes the need to agree on the law and vote on it without side disputes."[/size]
[size=45]And Cougar concluded, “The deficit for the current year will be secured through the round of oil sales for the past years, in addition to the remainder of the emergency support law for food security, and the budget will be passed for only seven months, and this clears the way for benefiting from sums that were supposed to be allocated.” for the past months.”[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that Parliament had earlier completed the first and second readings of the draft budget law submitted by the Council of Ministers for three years, and according to the project, its amounts amount to 200 trillion dinars, which is the highest in Iraq’s history, with a large deficit of 64 trillion dinars.[/size]
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