"Adjusting the exchange rate" ... a deputy talks about a government response to the parliamentary demands to reduce it

"Adjusting the exchange rate" ... a deputy talks about a government response to the parliamentary demands to reduce it



A member of the Parliamentary Economic and Investment Committee, Nada Shaker Jawdat, denied, Sunday (07 March 2021), that there is no real seriousness in Parliament to change the exchange rate of the dollar to the previous price.

Jawdat said, to (Baghdad Today), “The talk about the lack of a parliamentary majority rejecting the adjustment of the dollar’s ​​exchange rate after it was raised by the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, is inaccurate and far from reality. On the contrary, the majority with the exchange rate adjustment and returning it to What was it or less than what was stated in the 2021 budget bill.

She added that "adjusting the exchange rate of the dollar against the Iraqi dinar remains within the authority of the Iraqi government. As for Parliament, it cannot make any amendment except with the approval of the government," noting that "until the moment there is no government approval for this amendment, but rather there is insistence that the exchange rate remain Without any change, and this is what most deputies reject.

Earlier, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Jamal Cougar, confirmed today, Sunday (07 March 2021), that the political movement is still continuing within the House of Representatives, with the presence of parliamentary signatures submitted to the Parliament in order to restore the exchange rate of the dollar against the dinar or reduce the price. Present.

Cougar said in an interview with (Baghdad Today), "The political movement in this regard is still continuing, even there are requests submitted by the signatures of a large number of members of Parliament to the Parliament, for the exchange rate of the dollar."

He added, "Those signatures remained unchanged, because the Finance Committee and Parliament do not have any authority to amend or return the exchange rate of the dollar," stressing that "this matter is exclusively within the authority of the Central Bank."

And he indicated, "The government is difficult to go in this direction, because changing the exchange rate or returning it to its previous price needs to reformulate the 2021 budget bill anew."




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