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[size=52]The government is embarrassed by the disruption of the agreement with Kurdistan, and the framework is talking about resolving the budget next week[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Parties in the coordination framework have begun to send signals about the possibility of overcoming the Kurdistan region's objection to the budget in the event that an agreement is not reached by a date no later than next week.[/size]
[size=45]These insinuations seem to have embarrassed Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani, who sponsored the Arbil agreement two months ago, which may explain the government's silence on the statement on the subject.[/size]
[size=45]And a team from the coordination framework within the Finance Committee had set, in the last hours, before passing the budget scheduled for last Saturday, new conditions that brought the draft law back into negotiations.[/size]
[size=45]These conditions related to the mechanism of selling and exporting oil extracted from the region threatened to undermine the agreement signed last April between Baghdad and Erbil on these items.[/size]
[size=45]In this regard, the second deputy speaker of Parliament, Shakhwan Abdullah, directed a request to the Parliamentary Finance Committee to make financial transfers to secure the return of the saved salaries to the employees of the Kurdistan region.[/size]
[size=45]And the request stated, “In fairness and out of concern for the rights of the employees of the Kurdistan region, to return the sums saved due to the region’s budget cuts by the federal government since 2014, and because of the financial hardship that the Kurdistan region went through, the regional government resorted to financial austerity at the end of 2015, including compulsory savings in order to maintain the exchange Part of the salaries and asking us more than once to return these saved amounts, but the approval was not obtained.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "After the approval of the members of the Finance Committee on a proposal to return 10 percent per month of these savings to employees."[/size]
[size=45]And he continued, “Your committee kindly approved the transfer of an amount of not less than one trillion and two hundred billion dinars for each fiscal year, and until the full amounts saved from the amount of the amounts agreed upon to be transferred by your committee are paid at the rate of one hundred billion dinars per month, in order to fix the amount in the budget and the commitment of the federal government to implement the transfer within the provisions of The budget in the hope of returning all the amounts saved in the next budgets ».[/size]
[size=45]One of the recent amendments made by a team from the Finance Committee was for the region to pay monthly 10% of the salaries of Kurdistan employees that were deducted due to savings.[/size]
[size=45]These amendments prompted the head of the regional government, Masrour Barzani, to describe what happened as "treason, injustice and a plot hatched against the Kurdistan region."[/size]
[size=45]And Barzani added, in a statement issued by the Presidency of the region last Saturday: "But we will confront this conspiracy by all means, and we will not let it go."[/size]
[size=45]In the last two days, the coordination framework presented a modified version of the parliamentary financial conditions, but (the conditions) did not stray far from the basis of the problem, according to the interpretation of some political sources.[/size]
[size=45]Those sources indicate that what has been happening since the Finance Committee's coup against the agreement with Erbil is that it "goes contrary to the desire of the prime minister."[/size]
[size=45]So far, Al-Sudani has kept silent about the latest developments, although he was present at the last meeting of the Shiite alliance that preceded the submission of new proposals to the KDP.[/size]
[size=45]A former deputy in the Kurdistan Parliament says that Erbil's position on the amendments to the budget is "commitment to the agreement with the Sudanese."[/size]
[size=45]Abdul Salam Barwari, former deputy of (Al-Mada): “The delegation of the coordination framework, which presented the recent proposals to the Democratic Party, promised to persuade its deputies to retract the amendments.”[/size]
[size=45]He adds, "Erbil has a signed political agreement, and any party that retracts from the agreement must be held accountable, not the deputy representing the party in the Finance Committee."[/size]
[size=45]And the recent amendments were presented by Hadi al-Amiri, the leader of the Badr Organization last Monday, to Fuad Hussein (Foreign Minister) delegated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party to negotiate the latest crisis.[/size]
[size=45]Mustafa Sanad, a member of the Finance Committee and a member of the amendments team to the items of the Kurdistan budget, said that «the new proposals from the coordination framework are less severe than the touches of the Finance Committee».[/size]
[size=45]But Sanad also indicated in a tweet on Twitter that these amendments are: “more severe than the government draft.”[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Ikhlas Al-Dulaimi, another member of the Finance Committee, revealed that the Prime Minister objected to all the paragraphs that were amended in the draft budget law by the Finance Committee.[/size]
[size=45]She added, in press statements, that the committee's proposals were submitted by the names of "Deputies of Leagues and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan."[/size]
[size=45]Political affairs observers considered what happened to be against the prime minister's ambition to become a political leader competing with the leadership of the coordination framework.[/size]
[size=45]The opposition group to the Sudanese within the Shiite coalition is pushing to pass the budget even if the Democratic Party's objections remain.[/size]
[size=45]Informed political sources speak of the desire of some Shiite forces to present the budget no later than next week to parliament, and the vote will be by "majority."[/size]
[size=45]Moein Al-Kazemi, the third member, confirms in a statement to the official agency that "the State Administration Coalition will resolve the issue of the budget during the next week."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Kazemi continued, "Signals have begun to appear that the dispute that occurred after making amendments to the draft budget law may be overcome in preparation for a vote on it next week."[/size]
[size=45]The Finance Committee had completed all budget discussions before the latest proposals appeared, according to what Kamal Cougar, the fourth member of the committee, told Al Mada.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Rahim al-Darraji, a former deputy, is likely not to reach the moment of imposing a fait accompli in the issue of passing the budget.[/size]
[size=45]"The coordination framework has a quorum to pass the budget, but it will not risk passing it without the approval of the Democratic Party," Darraji, an observer of financial affairs, told Al-Mada.[/size]
[size=45]Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of the Wisdom Movement, considered in a television interview that the country's general financial budget did not meet the ambition of all Iraqi political forces as a "normal thing".[/size]
[size=45]In a subsequent development, the Federal Court had ruled that it was unconstitutional to extend the work of the Kurdistan Parliament for an additional year, and observers considered that this means canceling the agreement between Erbil and Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]But former MP Abdul Salam Berwari said, "The agreement exists because it was signed between two governments (the regional and federal governments)."[/size]
[size=45]The court considered that all decisions issued by him since last October, the date of extending this session, were “invalid.”[/size]
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