Deputy: amend the draft general budget bill

03/27/2014
A member of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the House of Representatives Mahma Khalil said that "the federal government has decided to make amendments to the draft law on the state budget, scrap materials punitive in it, and send an extension of those amendments to the council before the vote."

He added Mahma Khalil in his statement to Radio Free Iraq, "The Kurdistan Alliance bloc will start to attend meetings of the Council when sending amendments to the Council."

So stressed Alfalh leader of the Bloc coalition of state law that the coalition "supports the adoption of the budget law as soon as possible," hinting at the same time to the possibility of passing the law next week after the positive atmosphere that prevailed between Baghdad and Erbil on the background of the initiative of the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani own initiation in the export of 100 000 barrels of crude oil a day through the national oil marketing company "Sumo".

In the meantime, observers called related parties to speed up the approval of the General Budget Law Due to time constraints, the remaining life of the mandate of the current parliament which does not exceed a week.

Did not rule out a political analyst Ihsan al-Shammari to be the federal government is serious about an amendment to the budget bill, especially after the transformation of this law is a tool of political struggle into a tool to create new political alliances, as described.

The economic expert, Dr. Hilal Taan has stressed the need to speed up the approval of the General Budget Law for an end to the recession that has plagued Iraq's economy due to an almost complete stop to the activities of the investment.

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