Legal: the possibility of amending the Central Bank Law and borrow from it to cover the deficit

History of edits:: 2016/1/6 10:03

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He explained legal expert Tareq Harb, that the government could prepare a draft law approved by the House of Representatives for the purpose of modifying the law of the central bank and borrow from it to meet the financial requirements as a deposit of salaries and other away from external borrowing.

The war, in a statement received by the agency all of Iraq [where], a copy of "the first four days of 2016 saw a frightening and terrifying statements from officials and are not responsible for the financial realities of Iraq and the financial crisis, some even arrived to say that the government will not be able to pay salaries of employees in the next month of April. "

He added, "Since the Central Bank of Iraq has money of up to $ 60 billion as the bank announced that the fifth day of January of this, and as the bank's money immunity and prevent the bank from lending to the government is the legal immunity and is not constitutional immunity so that Article 26 of the Bank Law No. 56 in 2004 to prevent the bank from lending to the government the Constitution did it rule this money is given, and therefore it is possible to amend article mentioned in the Central Bank Law by law issued by the parliament building on the draft of the government includes amending the provisions of Article 26 is it includes the inadmissibility of government borrowing from the bank money that be including no more than a quarter of the bank's money. "

War and he explained that this means "passport to reach the amount that the government borrows to $ 15 billion, and this is a big amount that would satisfy the financial requirements of the salaries and other but not much more than what is required and prevents the government from foreign loans and their benefits."

And "It is true that this amendment and this loan is considered harmful, but as before the damage most is the absence of funds for the disbursement of salaries serves to damage the lightest, a decrease in bank money or influence in the economic level, as a legal rule has been said that necessity knows no law and necessity here need to borrow from Bank and the prohibition here is the lack of borrowing and the resulting economic damage Both are evil evil In selecting says the owners of wisdom. "

He continued war "Therefore, the central bank law amendment can be one of the solutions that protect the government from the grave and serious financial damage that is often repeated by the pessimists in the future of Iraq."

The Finance Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, revealed last Monday, that the government may not be able to pay employees' salaries during the month of April next year, due to lower oil prices.

Zebari said in an interview, "In the past year, we have succeeded in the distribution of salaries, but this year, according to estimates available to me, we have exposed to the problematic in the month of April may not be able to distribute the employees' salaries for that month, this is a reality, and people should know."

He explained that "The other option is how to raise the Iraqi dinar exchange rate, and although it choose the risk and could have repercussions, but we thought of not granting full salaries, and to keep some of our loans, and give a document that we will give money when the availability of our" .

And between Zebari said "The other option is to sell oil and receive money in advance, in addition to raising the price of water, electricity and fuel service option, but it is not easy, any government applied be subject to the reactions of citizens, economic and making painful, but it is said that any economic decision, if not It is not a painful decision, and there are seven million people are paid salaries of Iraq's total population of 36 million, and distribute monthly salaries of an estimated four billion dollars. "

For his part, counting the parliamentary Finance Committee member Jabbar al-Abadi, Zebari's comments about not being able to pay salaries in next April "inaccurate."

Ebadi said yesterday, for [where], that "the statement Zebari not careful, it can not be ceiling or placing of Iraq's inability to pay salaries," noting that "the salaries paid by oil revenues that could go up or down or maintain this Price, can also be obtained on the loans, all possibilities are open, "adding that" the development of a specific date for the inability to pay salaries is not true, and this statement is not accurate, "explaining that" there is no stock of existing in the Treasury paid through payroll, because what is obtained from imports directly pays for salaries, and there for a year or more secure, but payment is made month by month, ".anthy


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He called for in the parliamentary finance committee member, the finance minister, Hoshyar Zebari, to develop solutions in the face of the financial crisis in Iraq.


He said Hossam punitive told all of Iraq [where] "There is a contradiction in the media and the Finance Minister's remarks, they differ in the Kurdistan region of what he had said in Baghdad concerning salaries and deferred times and secured at other times."
 
He said the "discretionary budget provides a very speculative or staff salaries and not actually, and believes when preparing financial allocations as needed, but in the actual revenue and expenditure is governed by the amount of exports and the price of oil."
 
He explained punitive "What is placed in the budget from oil and non-oil Kaardat expenses allocations are not necessarily available as I wrote in the budget being dependent on the amount of revenue derived from oil and prices exports and levied and Asthsal of non-oil revenues, what is in the budget bill does not mean he is in Treasury actually. "
 
"I should have been on the finance minister to deal with the problem in finding solutions and not statements about the salaries of staff and strengthened the Iraqi people, we need to think seriously and search for ways to obtain the oil and non-oil revenues to resolving the crisis."
 
The Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned Monday that the Iraqi government will not be able employees' salaries for the month of April next distribution, if the oil price remains low, pointing to the existence Options Kalaguetrad and raise the price of basic services and the sale of sovereign bonds.
 
Zebari said in an interview with the network [Rudaw] Kurdish that "2016 will be a difficult year for Iraq, and in the last year, we have succeeded in the distribution of salaries, but this year, according to estimates available to me, we have exposed to the problematic in the month of April, and may not be able to the distribution of salaries staff for that month, and this is a reality and that people should know. "
 
Zebari's remarks raised the responses of political and popular actions "reprehensible and some are angry" as referring to the government's inability to secure the payment of salaries to its employees what the Minister of Finance to be undone, stressing the government's commitment to pay salaries. "
 
He said in a televised statement yesterday that "the government is committed to pay the salaries of employees and retirees, reiterating that the year 2016 will be financially difficult, but the government has alternatives and options for addressing the budget deficit and secure salaries" .anthy 2

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