Deputy for Iraq: Parliament to vote on the budget end of the week

Well now we have another date, lets see what they do tomorrow! or this could be old news circulating again!


Monday, February 18, 2013 09:34



{Baghdad: Euphrates News} A member of the parliamentary Finance Committee Wahab Hassan Salman, the House will vote this weekend on the state budget for the year 2013.

Wahab said in a statement to the Euphrates News Agency {} on Monday that "the Finance Committee completed its work with regard to budget measures but voting is disabled because of paragraphs beyond its fired parliamentary blocs in the House of Representatives."

He called on all political blocs to "compatibility with each other in order to speed up the vote on the budget being in the interest of the Iraqi individual and delay it causes damage to the functioning of living in the country."

It is said that the law of the federal fiscal budget for 2013 may order several times by the Presidency of the parliament for the non-arrival of parliamentary blocs to a solution satisfactory to all political parties.


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Najafi tomorrow hold a meeting with the heads of parliamentary blocs to agree on budget 2013


Author: SSJ
Editor: HH, NF
2013/02/18 11:51


Term Press / Baghdad

Announced the decision of the House of Representatives Mohamed Khaldi, on Monday, parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi held on Tuesday, meeting with the heads of parliamentary blocs to agree on the law of the financial budget for the current year 2013.

Said Mohammed al-Khalidi in an interview to the (long-Presse) The "House Speaker Osama Najafi will be held on Tuesday, meeting with the heads of parliamentary blocs and the Finance Committee, to discuss the differences between the political blocs on the law of the financial budget for the current year 2013."

Khalidi said that "the meeting will end the differences and exit final form of the law in order to put to the vote in the nearest session of parliament."

The head of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Osama Najafi decided, in the February 11, 2013, suspension of parliamentary sessions until consensus on the financial budget for the current year 2013, in the face of parliamentary committees to continue their work until a final version of the budget.

The parliament failed in its the 11 of the second legislative term of the year legislative third session, on the seventh of February 2013, in the vote on the bill this year's budget, to make Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi open meeting, after the failure of heads of parliamentary blocs to reach a final agreement on a formula the law.

The Kurdistan Alliance refused, in the 11 of February 2013, accused of obstructing the passage of a law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, accusing the party that drafted the law "to put obstacles in it," threatened not to vote on the budget where paragraphs "punitive and political" on the territory of Kurdistan.

He expressed the Sadrist movement, in the 13 of February 2013, no objection to the allocation of 17% of the current year budget 2013, the Kurdistan region, but stressed the need for distribution by ratio of the population of the provinces, as called for Presidency of the Council of Representatives to "get away" from the political pressure in the adoption of the budget.

The Iraqi List, announced, in the fourth of February 2013, they will refuse to vote on the current year budget being allocated amounts "fairy" to the prime minister, their two million and a half million dollars, while Re coalition of state law, the sixth of February 2013, describing the objection Iraqi List budget of the Council of Ministers for the current year "Speech Baelchenhna is not ethical," among that there is "a large number of circuits associated with the Cabinet, accusing Iraq of being" want to ignite resentment among the Iraqi people. "

The Council of Ministers approved, on the fifth of November 2012, the budget year 2013 worth 138 trillion Iraqi dinars, while parliament announced, in the 26 December 2012, re-draft budget to the government to make amendments to it.

The estimated value of Iraq's budget for 2013 b 138 trillion Iraqi dinars calculated based on the price of oil at $ 90 per barrel, and an export rate of two million and 900 thousand barrels per day.

It is noteworthy that political sources and other parliamentary, attributed the mismatch on the draft budget, to raise political blocs its demands, it stated that the state law insists Set Session certain local governments and reduce the share of the Kurdistan region, the Kurdistan Alliance insists on increasing allocations Peshmerga and maintain the ratio Territory of the budget amounting to 17 percent, as well as the allocation of funds to oil companies operating in the region, and would require the Iraqi List, the census and non-interference central government in the affairs of local governments before agreeing on the budget, as well as increasing the price of a barrel of oil to neighboring countries, which is now $ 50, Sadrists insist on the implementation of the 25 percent of the surplus oil sales and distribution to citizens with passage of the Pension Act, while demanding citizen adoption of block grant university students and increase social welfare grant and made 250 thousand dinars as a condition for voting on the budget.

It is noteworthy that the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil, which broke out during the (November of 2012), that brought matters between the two capitals to the limits of "brinkmanship" after Thrikema of heavy weapons and Thacidha within Kirkuk, their impact on the attitude of the coalition of state law to balance the Kurdistan region, But talk about the topic "eased" against the backdrop of escalating protests and sit-ins in the Sunni areas, which has made the "hawks" of state law influence "silence" tactical retreat, even while, in light of their position that "I do not envy him."


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Finance Committee: the parliamentary session for tomorrow dedicated to the federal budget




BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya News / .. Confirmed the parliamentary Finance Committee on Monday that the parliament session for tomorrow will be devoted to the discussion of the federal budget in order to reach a final consensus.

The source said the committee's / Baghdadiya News / "All paragraphs federal budget full not only keeps getting political consensus between the blocks it," adding that "the session will be dedicated solely to discuss the federal budget did not put any items or other paragraphs on the agenda of the meeting."

He added that "all the political blocs and the passage of the budget committees in the parliament will be held intensive meetings tomorrow before entering the final vote on the federal budget."

The House of Representatives has failed during the previous sessions in approving the budget because of differences between the blocks on some paragraphs and the high demands of the roof of some blocks. "Finished / 21


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