Parliament agrees to keep the share of the Kurdistan region in the budget, as in the past

Parliament agrees to keep the share of the Kurdistan region in the budget, as in the past



Term Press / Baghdad

The House voted Iraqi, on Wednesday, during its 13-second legislative term of the year legislative third to keep the share Kurdistan region of 17% of the financial budget for the current year 2013, despite the boycott coalition of Kurdish blocs and part of the Iraqi List, with the exception of Vice breakaway coalition state law to vote encroachment on the rules of procedure of Parliament.

The MP said the Iraqi bloc free Zuhair al-Araji said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The House of Representatives voted during its 13-second legislative term of the year legislative third session, today, headed by Osama Najafi and the presence 168 MPs on the third paragraph of Article IX of the budget Mahalah for the current year 2013, for granting the Kurdistan region of 17% of the budget. "

The Iraqi Council of Representatives held on Wednesday, (6 March 2013), its the 13 of the second legislative term of the year legislative third headed by Osama Najafi and the presence 168 deputies, to vote on the budget bill financial for the current year 2013, while categorically coalition of Kurdish blocs and part of the Iraqi List session.

For his part count MP Hussein al-Asadi during a press conference held at the parliament building and attended (range Press), voted to grant the Kurdistan region of 17% of the budget, "an encroachment on the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives," asserting that "there are options put forward by some lawmakers to allocate only 13% of the region of Kurdistan But not ignore them. "

Asadi said he "was supposed to be giving 5% of the oil-producing provinces instead give this higher percentage of the territory."

The Iraqi List, announced on Wednesday, (6 March 2013), it would not attend sessions of the Council of Representatives for a vote on the budget law for the current year 2013, while accepting the political blocs which, as ruled resolve differences between the coalitions national and Kurdistan on the payment of oil company operating in Kurdistan or vote on the budget during the parliamentary session to be held today.

The vote on the budget comes after postponed five times because of differences between the national alliances and Kurdistan and the Iraqi List, the failure of parliament during its meeting held on 23 February 2013, the vote on the budget bill back to the government to amend it.

A source of political beginning, the first on Monday, (4 March 2013), that the coalitions national and Kurdistan failed to reach a final formula for the payment of the oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region, despite the concession Kurds a billion dollars out of four billion and 200 million dinars, After hours to detect a parliamentary source familiar with the interview (range Press), that the Iraqi List and the Kurdistan Alliance forward new demands for the Law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, and stressed that those demands will impede adoption of the budget, warned against independent MP Othman Algehiche of "the repercussions of disapproval" .

The Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr face, the first on Sunday, (3 March 2013), his followers to demonstrate in all provinces on Friday, demanding the promulgation of the Law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, 24 hours after the threat Liberal bloc of the Sadrist movement, the first on Saturday, ( March 2 2013), by resorting to many styles with the Iraqi people in general to force the political blocs on the adoption of the budget year 2013 the current, and showed that some deals with the subject like "booty" to impose a fait accompli and get the "gains", accused political blocs to work in the "underground "to block approval.

And systems of hundreds of supporters Sadrist movement, in the 26 of February 2013, sit-in outside the Green Zone in central Baghdad, to demand the adoption of the financial budget for the current year 2013, denouncing the approaching political hindering approval, as announced cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in the 27 February 2013, end the sit-in because of harassment by the security services of the protestors besieged and stop them and arrest them.

And the failure of the meeting of representatives governments central and Kurdistan region and heads of parliamentary blocs held, in the 27 February 2013, at the invitation of House Speaker Osama Najafi, to reach a final version on dues oil companies operating in the region, to resolve the budget law financial for the current year 2013, as set Najafi, next Monday, (February 4, 2013), a deadline to vote on the budget.

The Finance Committee of the House of Representatives announced, at the 24 February 2013, an agreement the Kurdistan Alliance and the Iraqi National Alliance on a final version of the budget law financial for the current year 2013, during a meeting, Second Deputy Speaker Arif Tayfur with heads of parliamentary blocs and the legal committee at the parliament building and attended by the Minister Planning and Finance Ali Yousef Shukri and Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee and a delegation representing the BSA, after approval of the demands of the Iraqi List, increasing the share of development of the Territory to the provinces after the reallocation of the operational budget, and demand the Kurdistan Alliance to pay dues oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region but in batches and not all at one.

He returned the Kurdistan Alliance after, on the agreement in the 25 February 2013, to back down, demanding payment of dues oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region once and not in the form of payments as agreed. Faces approve Iraq's budget for 2013, many obstacles and large While failed when parliament , in the February 23, 2013, by adopting or returned to the Council of Ministers to modify the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expressed his concern at the boards central and southern governorates, held in Basra, in the 23 of February 2013, that the cause political problems experienced by the country not to approve the budget .

The Council of Ministers approved, on the fifth of November 2012, the budget year 2013 worth 138 trillion Iraqi dinars and adopted the budget on oil exports from Iraq on the basis of 90 dollars as the price per barrel.

The adoption of the general budget of the Iraqi state since the first session of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (2006, 2010) and the current session of the toughest issues facing the political blocs in each year. And result in delayed approval to the non-implementation of many projects in the provinces and mostly stopped after starting because of routine procedures in force in the disbursement of funds to the provinces.

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