The government's appeals to the budget avoided the "Kurdistan clauses"

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[size=52]The government's appeals to the budget avoided the "Kurdistan clauses"[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan
[size=45]The government did not comment, until the moment of writing the report yesterday, on the series of appeals filed against the budget law.
And the statement denying the appeal from a government source is still published for the second day in a row, on the official agency website!
The judiciary and parliament, in turn, confirmed the news, and news platforms circulated a document containing 12 appeals submitted against the budget.[/size]
[size=45]Members of the Finance Committee who supported the appeal found that the government had indirectly stopped the escalation of the budget deficit.[/size]
[size=45]The appeals showed substantial decisions related to suspending hundreds of thousands of contracts and appointments, and the powers to grant lands to investors in the governorates.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the government avoided challenging the items that sparked a political crisis, which are related to the allocations of Kurdistan, which brought back talk once again about a government-framework consensus regarding what happened last month.[/size]
[size=45]The legal department in Parliament said in a statement on Sunday that it had received "officially" Prime Minister Muhammad Shia'a al-Sudani's appeal of the budget law.[/size]
[size=45]Representatives also mentioned that the Federal Court informed Parliament of the government's appeal, but the strange thing is that the government has not yet commented on the news.[/size]
[size=45]The official news agency says in a news item it published on Sunday evening (it is still published), quoting an unnamed government source: "There is no truth to Prime Minister Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani's appeal against the articles of the general budget law."[/size]
[size=45]Political circles believe that the government's silence on the appeal may be due to the Sudanese avoiding a clash with Parliament at the present time.[/size]
[size=45]The appeal was expected when Finance Minister Taif Sami threatened, shortly after the parliament passed the budget last month, that she would appeal if the budget was approved and included a change in the paragraphs included by the government.[/size]
[size=45]After that, Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani announced last month that the amended items in the budget would be reviewed.[/size]
[size=45]He considered passing the budget at the time as a political gain for some of the parties to the coordination framework, which added in the last moments before the vote proposals that complicated the relationship with Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]Ihsan al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking, says, "Part of the parties to the coordination framework support measures to cut spending, and they may be in agreement with al-Sudani's appeals."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Shammari talks here about Ammar al-Hakim (leader of wisdom) and Haider al-Abadi (leader of victory).[/size]
[size=45]In his recent Eid sermon, al-Hakim criticized the government's employment policy and the increase in financial burdens, considering it a "financial time bomb," as he described it.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Al-Shammari believes in his interview with (Al-Mada) that "there are other wings in the Shiite coalition that may be angered by the government's challenge to the budget because it considered the recent amendments to the draft law as evidence of its strength and control over the decision."[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Representative Youssef Al-Kalabi, a member of the Finance Committee team that put the amendments to the budget, said that he would defend before the Federal Court against the government's appeal.[/size]
[size=45]And he added in a tweet on Twitter: "I saw the government's appeal list... We will defend the articles related to the Martyrs' Institution and the powers of the provinces...".[/size]
[size=45]The proposals of the members of the committee, consisting of 5 main personalities associated with the Shiite alliance and the crowd, had blown up a previous agreement between Baghdad and Erbil regarding the financial situation of the region.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani's silence at the time suggested that he might be dissatisfied with what happened, while leaks indicated that the coordination framework had removed the prime minister from the budget file.[/size]
[size=45]Ihsan Al-Shammari, a researcher in political affairs, believes that "Al-Sudani always wants to show himself independent from the leadership of the framework, and the appeals against the budget may be a message to the Iraqis that he is not subject to anyone."[/size]
[size=45]However, Al-Shammari goes back to saying: "Despite that, there is no confirmation of the independence of Al-Sudani, just as the leaders of the Shiite coalition adhere in their speeches to the fact that the government is the framework government."[/size]
[size=45]In any case, Al-Shammari does not see that the challenge to the budget will cause a crisis within the "framework", which may eventually understand the government's financial crisis due to the volume of spending.[/size]
[size=45]It was expected that Al-Sudani would challenge the articles that shook the relationship with Kurdistan, says Kamal Cougar, a member of the Finance Committee.[/size]
[size=45]And he added in an interview with (Al-Mada): “I was expecting Articles 13 and 14 to be challenged, but perhaps the Prime Minister fears the Shiite street, or the amendments to the budget may be in agreement with the coordination framework or commensurate with the orientations of the Sudanese.”[/size]
[size=45]The list of appeals published on a number of news websites included 12 appeals, including Articles 2, 16, 20, 28, 57, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 72, and 75.[/size]
[size=45]And Cougar confirms that “the appeals are major and very important, and most of them are valid, and without these appeals, the budget will cost additional burdens.”[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the most prominent amendments, a member of the Finance Committee explains: “There is an appeal against appointments and contracts, which will stop about 300,000 jobs.”[/size]
[size=45]This was represented in the appeal of Articles 62, 36, and 65, which make an exception for Parliament (150 jobs), the Federal Court, and the Judicial Council from the Budget Law by preventing appointments.[/size]
[size=45]Likewise, Article 75, which relates to the contracts of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the rest of the ministries after the date of October 2, 2019.[/size]
[size=45]Cougar said, "The government's appeal will stop the expansion of the deficit, which was expanded by the Finance Committee's proposals, without changing the numbers."[/size]

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[size=52]The government's appeals to the budget avoided the "Kurdistan clauses"[/size]


[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The government did not comment, until the moment of writing the report yesterday, on the series of appeals filed against the budget law.
And the statement denying the appeal from a government source is still published for the second day in a row, on the official agency website!
The judiciary and parliament, in turn, confirmed the news, and news platforms circulated a document containing 12 appeals submitted against the budget.[/size]
[size=45]Members of the Finance Committee who supported the appeal found that the government had indirectly stopped the escalation of the budget deficit.[/size]
[size=45]The appeals showed substantial decisions related to suspending hundreds of thousands of contracts and appointments, and the powers to grant lands to investors in the governorates.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the government avoided challenging the items that sparked a political crisis, which are related to the allocations of Kurdistan, which brought back talk once again about a government-framework consensus regarding what happened last month.[/size]
[size=45]The legal department in Parliament said in a statement on Sunday that it had received "officially" Prime Minister Muhammad Shia'a al-Sudani's appeal of the budget law.[/size]
[size=45]Representatives also mentioned that the Federal Court informed Parliament of the government's appeal, but the strange thing is that the government has not yet commented on the news.[/size]
[size=45]The official news agency says in a news item it published on Sunday evening (it is still published), quoting an unnamed government source: "There is no truth to Prime Minister Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani's appeal against the articles of the general budget law."[/size]
[size=45]Political circles believe that the government's silence on the appeal may be due to the Sudanese avoiding a clash with Parliament at the present time.[/size]
[size=45]The appeal was expected when Finance Minister Taif Sami threatened, shortly after the parliament passed the budget last month, that she would appeal if the budget was approved and included a change in the paragraphs included by the government.[/size]
[size=45]After that, Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani announced last month that the amended items in the budget would be reviewed.[/size]
[size=45]He considered passing the budget at the time as a political gain for some of the parties to the coordination framework, which added in the last moments before the vote proposals that complicated the relationship with Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]Ihsan al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking, says, "Part of the parties to the coordination framework support measures to cut spending, and they may be in agreement with al-Sudani's appeals."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Shammari talks here about Ammar al-Hakim (leader of wisdom) and Haider al-Abadi (leader of victory).[/size]
[size=45]In his recent Eid sermon, al-Hakim criticized the government's employment policy and the increase in financial burdens, considering it a "financial time bomb," as he described it.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Al-Shammari believes in his interview with (Al-Mada) that "there are other wings in the Shiite coalition that may be angered by the government's challenge to the budget because it considered the recent amendments to the draft law as evidence of its strength and control over the decision."[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Representative Youssef Al-Kalabi, a member of the Finance Committee team that put the amendments to the budget, said that he would defend before the Federal Court against the government's appeal.[/size]
[size=45]And he added in a tweet on Twitter: "I saw the government's appeal list... We will defend the articles related to the Martyrs' Institution and the powers of the provinces...".[/size]
[size=45]The proposals of the members of the committee, consisting of 5 main personalities associated with the Shiite alliance and the crowd, had blown up a previous agreement between Baghdad and Erbil regarding the financial situation of the region.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani's silence at the time suggested that he might be dissatisfied with what happened, while leaks indicated that the coordination framework had removed the prime minister from the budget file.[/size]
[size=45]Ihsan Al-Shammari, a researcher in political affairs, believes that "Al-Sudani always wants to show himself independent from the leadership of the framework, and the appeals against the budget may be a message to the Iraqis that he is not subject to anyone."[/size]
[size=45]However, Al-Shammari goes back to saying: "Despite that, there is no confirmation of the independence of Al-Sudani, just as the leaders of the Shiite coalition adhere in their speeches to the fact that the government is the framework government."[/size]
[size=45]In any case, Al-Shammari does not see that the challenge to the budget will cause a crisis within the "framework", which may eventually understand the government's financial crisis due to the volume of spending.[/size]
[size=45]It was expected that Al-Sudani would challenge the articles that shook the relationship with Kurdistan, says Kamal Cougar, a member of the Finance Committee.[/size]
[size=45]And he added in an interview with (Al-Mada): “I was expecting Articles 13 and 14 to be challenged, but perhaps the Prime Minister fears the Shiite street, or the amendments to the budget may be in agreement with the coordination framework or commensurate with the orientations of the Sudanese.”[/size]
[size=45]The list of appeals published on a number of news websites included 12 appeals, including Articles 2, 16, 20, 28, 57, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 72, and 75.[/size]
[size=45]And Cougar confirms that “the appeals are major and very important, and most of them are valid, and without these appeals, the budget will cost additional burdens.”[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the most prominent amendments, a member of the Finance Committee explains: “There is an appeal against appointments and contracts, which will stop about 300,000 jobs.”[/size]
[size=45]This was represented in the appeal of Articles 62, 36, and 65, which make an exception for Parliament (150 jobs), the Federal Court, and the Judicial Council from the Budget Law by preventing appointments.[/size]
[size=45]Likewise, Article 75, which relates to the contracts of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the rest of the ministries after the date of October 2, 2019.[/size]
[size=45]Cougar said, "The government's appeal will stop the expansion of the deficit, which was expanded by the Finance Committee's proposals, without changing the numbers."[/size][/size]