Parliament criticizes the government to delay sending the budget and electoral exploit fear

09-11-2013
 Baghdad / Mohammad Sabah



Parliamentary Finance Committee warned from entering the "federal budget" within the electoral propaganda of the political blocs if they were delayed arrival to Parliament, expected not to be approved before next April.

The members of the Committee said that the reason for the delay sending the budget back to Parliament the government modifications will lead to the lifting of operating expenses once again at the expense of investment.

The House of Representatives was busy in the past two months to discuss a package of important laws in the forefront of the election law and the common retirement and infrastructure, which led to a decline in the federal budget law in the priorities of the executive and legislative branches.

In this context, says MP Abdul Amir Mayahi, a member of the Finance Committee, said that "the reasons behind the non-arrival of the budget 2014 to the House of Representatives due to a replay of the Council of Ministers to the Ministry of Finance to make some adjustments."

He Mayahi, the "long" yesterday, said that "the Council of Ministers called for financial codified operating expenses from buying cars, furniture and Ivadat and others to become 64%, and investment 36% after that was 41%," pointing out that "the federal budget in accordance with amendments to the Ministry of Finance recently become 147 billion dollars, equivalent to 174 trillion dinars. "

In the opinion of the Attorney for the Liberal bloc bra and having other reasons led to the late arrival of the budget to Parliament, including "prepared within the Ministry of Finance by staff who are not specialists and experience, not academics," adding that this has led to "confusion big mistakes as well as a door exchange fake and are not real. "

Attorney Mayahi said that "the Council of Ministers needs a period of two weeks to complete discuss and approve the budget and send it to parliament," likely arrival in the House of Representatives "after the end of the current legislative term holiday."

And a member of the Finance Committee ruled enable Parliament to approve the budget soon, likely "exploit, which may be another reason to delay approval because of some political blocs are trying to employ an election," expected "delayed approval of the end of the fourth month or later because of the proximity of the election."

In the same vein, said MP Najiba Najib, the other member of the Finance Committee, said that "the budget if sent by the government in 14/11 it is likely to extend the legislative term of the first to be discussed and voted upon," pointing out that "the delay from the date سيرجئ discussed to what after the legislative recess. "

Najib said, in an interview for the "long" by saying that "all the numbers that came out of the Ministry of Finance and other allocations are not final because the allocations will change the cabinet and adds them."

Either on the delayed arrival by the government, saw the Kurdistan Alliance MP said it "would lead to the delay in the House of Representatives," and wished that "This delay is in the interest of the budget through the government's efforts to resolve all outstanding problems between them and the Kurdistan region."

She drew Najib said that "the Financial Administration Act imposes on the government to send the budget end of the month of September is also required completion of the approval of Parliament or voted on before the end of any fiscal year in the month of December."

She Kurdistan Alliance MP that its Finance Committee "has taken several measures in order to receive the budget in the month of September and submitted to parliament for the first and second reading and vote, but it did not reach by the government."

Najib felt that "the current budget, which emerged from the Ministry of Finance did not address the outstanding issues between Baghdad and the region debts oil companies and the salaries of the Peshmerga."

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