The House of Representatives raises its session to five o'clock this evening, Saturday

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[size=52]The House of Representatives raises its session to five o'clock this evening, Saturday[/size]

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“Baghdad Today” follows the developments of the session to complete the vote on the budget, and reports the developments first-hand through its chain of correspondents and sources.[/size]
[size=45]A closed meeting is currently being held between Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi and his two deputies, Mohsen al-Mandalawi and Shakhwan Abdullah, the leader of the Al-Fateh coalition Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Finance Committee, and the head of the State of Law coalition parliamentary bloc, Atwan al-Atwan.[/size]
[size=45]- The continuation of side meetings of the heads of political blocs[/size]
[size=45]- Preliminary agreement to hold a session to complete the vote on the budget law at 6 pm, in the event that the political forces reach a settlement of the differences, and otherwise it is difficult to hold the session[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives rings its bell, signaling the start of the budget session[/size]
[size=45]Members of Parliament flocked to the session in preparation for holding it and completing the passage of the tripartite budget articles[/size]
[size=45]-The House of Representatives opens its session to complete the vote on the articles of the draft federal budget law for the three fiscal years (2023, 2024, 2025), in the presence of 180 deputies.[/size]
[size=45]- KDP representatives withdraw from the session and hold a meeting with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Housing inside the KDP headquarters[/size]
[size=45]- The heads of the blocs in the coordination framework are still holding a meeting outside the parliament hall[/size]
[size=45]- The Parliament session has now stopped due to the presence of meetings of all political forces, and each individual bloc meets to resolve its final positions regarding the session and proceed with completing the vote on the budget law.[/size]
[size=45]- A verbal altercation between deputies from the coordination framework and some deputies from the Democratic Party regarding the controversial budget clauses pertaining to the region, and their voices are loud outside the hall[/size]
[size=45]- The parliament hall was empty of deputies after they boycotted the session, due to the continuation of disputes over some budget items[/size]
[size=45]- The negotiators of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Benkin Rikani and Fouad Hussein, joined the meeting of the head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Muhammad Al-Halbousi, the negotiator of the Patriotic Union, Khaled Shawani, and the heads of the coordination framework blocs in the parliament cafeteria[/size]
[size=45]-The House of Representatives resumes voting on the draft federal budget law[/size]
[size=45]-Now... start reading the tripartite budget bill[/size]
[size=45]- The House of Representatives is still continuing to read Article Two of the budget[/size]
[size=45]-MP Mahmoud Al-Qaisi: We are now reading the paragraph of allocating two billion dollars to establish 1,000 model schools in Iraq[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article Two of the Budget Law[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article 9 of the Budget Law[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article 10 of the Budget Law[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article Eleven of the Budget Law[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article Twelve of the Budget Law[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article 13 of the Budget Law[/size]
[size=45]- The House of Representatives postpones voting on Articles 14, 15, 16 and 17 until political consensus is reached[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article 18 regarding the revenues of the Communications Authority[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Article 19 regarding the collection of water, electricity, sewage and telephone fees[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives votes on Articles 20 on employee secondment, 21, 23 and 24, and deletes Article 22[/size]
[size=45]The Speaker of Parliament adjourns the session to five o'clock today, Saturday[/size]
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