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[size=52]Parliamentary criticism of the government’s delay in sending the budget schedules despite the approaching quarterly recess of the Council... and Finance is committed to not sending the schedules[/size]

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05-06-2024
Parliamentary criticism of the government’s delay in sending the budget schedules despite the approaching quarterly recess of the Council.. and Finance is committed to not sending the budget schedules[/size]
[size=45]At a time when the Iraqi Council of Representatives is awaiting the sending of the budget schedules for the year 2024, the budget issue returns to the forefront and the circle of controversy, as political sources confirmed that the Ministry of Finance has not sent the budget schedules to the Council of Ministers until now, despite the latter’s announcement more than a month ago that it would be sent to the Council for the purpose of Study it.[/size]
[size=45]On June 12, 2023, the Iraqi Parliament voted on the federal budget law for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025, in an initiative that is the first of its kind in the country’s history in terms of the size of the budget as well as the number of fiscal years, with a value of 197 trillion and 828 billion dinars, with a financial deficit of 63. One trillion dinars, or nearly a third of the budget.[/size]
[size=45]According to political sources, “The Council of Ministers is waiting for the schedules to arrive from the Ministry of Finance for the purpose of being discussed by the Council of Ministers and passed to Parliament for the purpose of voting on them. When those schedules arrive, the Council will prepare to vote on them.”[/size]
[size=45]Political and popular circles have been waiting for five months for the approval of Iraq’s budget for the year 2024, the largest and most deficit in its history, amid fears that it will cause financial and economic problems that the government is unable to address, especially after the sudden change in the total amount, reaching 228 trillion dinars and a deficit exceeding 80 trillion. .[/size]
[size=45]The budget and the quarterly recess of Parliament[/size]
[size=45]Observers of political affairs had confirmed that “the approval of the budget schedules for the year 2024 may be delayed for another two months, as Parliament is about to enter its quarterly recess, and therefore the approval of the schedules was delayed for approximately half a year, and it was supposed to be approved before that in order for the government to begin implementing the projects.” “New.”[/size]
[size=45]Observers explained, “The government wants there to be preliminary approvals so that the budget schedules are acceptable to the House of Representatives when the Council of Ministers submits these schedules to it, and thus they do not receive major objections and the process of approving them in the House of Representatives is disrupted.”[/size]
[size=45]While legal experts confirm that the internal regulations of the House of Representatives stipulate that the legislative recess be postponed, and that the House be considered in permanent session, upon the arrival of the general budget, because its approval is one of the most important duties of the House, if not the most important.
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[size=45]On Monday, the Financial Advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, revealed new details related to the budget lists and schedules for the year 2024, which are still under discussion in the Iraqi Council of Ministers.[/size]
[size=45]Saleh suggested, during a press interview on Monday, that “the Council of Ministers, in a session tomorrow, Tuesday, will discuss and approve the budget law schedules, and then send them to the House of Representatives as soon as possible.”[/size]
[size=45]The Sudanese advisor explained, “The percentage of the deficit in the budget tables is unknown, and it will be determined according to the tables that will be approved by the Council of Ministers, before sending them to the House of Representatives.”[/size]
[size=45]According to what was stated in Law No. 13 of 2023, the lists and tables of the tripartite general budget law should be submitted to the House of Representatives.[/size]
[size=45]The Council of Ministers was scheduled to vote, in last Tuesday’s session, on the budget schedules for the year 2024, and send them to Parliament, according to what was announced by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, but the Council did not include that on its agenda.[/size]
[size=45]The statement from the office of Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, during last week's session, did not include any details about the 2024 budget schedules.[/size]
[size=45]Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, agreed last Tuesday with the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, on the necessity of completing the schedules of the budget law for the year 2024, and expediting sending them to the House of Representatives for the purpose of discussing and voting on them.[/size]
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