A meeting of the leaders of the political blocs to agree on the controversial draft budget points

Monday, February 11 / February 2013 07:28


Baghdad / Orr News

The presidency of the House of Representatives this morning meeting with heads of political blocs for the purpose of agreeing on three controversial points blocked the vote on the draft budget last Saturday.

A political source told (UR) that "the Finance Committee in Parliament yesterday unable to reach agreement on the three controversial points in the budget related to the Kurdistan Alliance, prompting the Committee to raise those points to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to resolve them."

The source explained that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives will be held this morning meeting with the heads of political blocs to agree on three points, a balancing of the Peshmerga, and the region's share in the budget, and the payment of debt by foreign oil companies operating in the region."

But a prominent member of the National Alliance and leader of the parliamentary bloc stressed that there are a large number of contract prevented the adoption of the budget 2013 first budget prime minister's office and demand the territory allocated $ 4 trillion Iraqi dinars salaries Peshmerga forces, including arms for that forces began preparing growth unlike years Previous!.

He added that the budget office of Prime Minister of 23 trillion Iraqi dinars annually and include salaries Prime Minister and the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the additional allocation in addition to salaries Brigade 54 on the protection of the prime minister and personal protection of President al-Maliki who exceed the 800 security element and the amount also includes social benefits, with an estimated 7 million dollars!.

The source adds Parliamentary that of the contract incurable claim Kurds allocate $ 4 trillion dinars for private companies drilling for oil and discovered also that the Kurdistan Alliance calls for salaries of the Peshmerga and the payment allocations for the purchase of weapons for these military forces, which spins the political debate about the legitimacy of their presence and the need to append the Iraqi army by the Constitution adopted the end of 2006, a dispute that 6 years old and did not include those in the federal budget allocations only last year the bilateral agreement that took place between state law and the Kurds against the backdrop of confidentiality agreements signed between Barzani and Maliki the end of the election of the House of Representatives in 2010.

The Dawa Party deputies had collected the signatures of 120 deputies in the parliament in order to create an atmosphere requires parliamentary reduce the Territory's budget of 17 billion to $ 12 billion.


The House of Representatives has not been able until now to agree on approving the budget despite the fact that the government sent to parliament before about two months from now.


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