***** Araji indicates reasons for not approving the budget and the decision of the House of Representatives is expected to be resolved next Thursday

Wednesday, February 27, 2014 13:12

 



Twilight News / tote former president of the Liberal bloc Bahaa al-Araji, on Thursday, the reasons for the government to postpone the vote on the budget sent late and non-implementation of laws voted by the House of Representatives and go for the disbursement of funds to the forces backing illegal.

 The parliamentary Finance Committee announced earlier that there is a deficit of an estimated 40 billion dollars in the federal budget for 2014, which is still under discussion in the Council of Representatives of Iraq, despite the passage of two months of the financial year.

They said in a press conference attended by "Twilight News", that "there are political blocs deliberately not attend meetings where the budget or the inclusion of important laws."

 Noting points that stand in front of the most important to pass the budget and the delay in the timing of the government sending a deliberate "

He warned al-Araji, "some of the parties to exploit the budget for electoral propaganda", pointing out that the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil fabricated by the government to cover the failure of security, describing the government as "government crisis".

He criticized al-Araji, non-implementation of laws enacted by parliament, a law student grant, and pension law, go with the government to divert money to the troops without the backing of any law, returned these trends electoral propaganda.

In regard to the last decision of the House of Representatives predicted Mohammed al-Khalidi, today, that there will be a solution to the crisis   Budget next Thursday.

Khalidi said during a news conference at the parliament building attended by "Twilight News", that "the federal government assume the delay in approving the budget and not sent it to the parliament law   Too late to the House of Representatives.

 "He said, adding, that" Parliament can not approve the draft budget with the continuing differences between the political blocs, as well as the lack of quorum in the parliament session. "

He said al-Khalidi, "The Speaker of Parliament Osama Najafi went to the province of Kurdistan to resolve differences on the draft budget between the governments in Baghdad and the region," expected easing the crisis in the coming days.

Iraqi economists agree with the concerns of the International Monetary Fund from the impact of falling oil prices on the budget for Iraq in 2014, and criticized the Iraqi government for not properly preparing the budget contributes to the development of other productive sectors.



There are differences on the mechanism of export of oil from Kurdistan, which hampers to pass the budget, which is estimated to exceed 150 billion dollars, the largest on Iraq.


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