The Finance Committee requests a 24-hour deadline: Kurdistan's dispute was confined between the "two

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[size=52]The Finance Committee requests a 24-hour deadline: Kurdistan's dispute was confined between the "two parties" over the 10% clause[/size]

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2023-06-08
Today, Thursday, members of the Parliamentary Finance Committee asked the Parliamentary Legal Committee to give them only 24 hours to read the budget law in preparation for its approval, while they revealed the nature of the internal Kurdish dispute regarding the committee’s “amendments” and the party’s “veto” democrats for a specific procedure.[/size]
[size=45]Sources who were present at the meeting of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, which ended a short time ago, said that “a number of committee members actually asked the Legal Committee to give a period of 24 hours only in order to read the budget law, provided that this be with the approval of the Presidency of Parliament.”[/size]
[size=45]The sources added, "There is preliminary approval from the Presidency and the Parliamentary Legal Committee, but so far it has not been official regarding this request."[/size]
[size=45]For her part, the deputy in the Legal Committee, Iman Abdel-Razzaq, confirmed the existence of this proposed deadline from members of the Finance Committee to their counterparts in the Legal Committee and the informal approval so far from the Presidency of Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mueen Al-Kazemi, said, "The Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government have reached an important agreement regarding Articles 13 and 14 of the General Budget Law, which pertain to the mechanism for exporting oil from the region through the (SOMO) company and depositing the sums in an account in the Central Bank," noting that “The prime minister of the region has the authority to disburse the amount from this account.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kazemi added, "In the event that it is not possible to export oil from the port of Ceyhan, the quantities of 400 thousand barrels of oil per day will be settled to the federal government for local consumption, and the federal government will have to pay the region's dues 12.67% of the budget."[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Finance Committee continued, "The remaining differences are between the Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan regarding the priority of disbursing the salaries of employees and retirees in the Kurdistan Region, and in the event that the distribution is not fair, the Patriotic Union will deal directly with the federal government by disbursing the dues of Sulaymaniyah without referring to the regional government." Pointing out that "the Democratic Party is not satisfied with this issue and considers it interference in the internal region."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Kazemi indicated, “Therefore, dialogues are currently taking place to reach a consensus between the Democratic Party and the National Union in this regard, in order to reach a final result.”[/size]
[size=45]The Kurdistan Democratic Party objected to the amendments added by the Parliamentary Finance Committee to the budget law, which, according to the party’s vision, reflected the agreement between the governments of Baghdad and the region, while attempts were made to resolve this “crisis”, whether at the level of parliamentary meetings or even at the level of political parties and blocs to bring the views of the two parties closer. In order to pass the budget without “objections or problems” or facing last-hour surprises.[/size]
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