Presidential efforts to approve the budget

[Rochester]

The ball is on the 1 Yard line. Will the Baghdad Football Club fumble the ball? ....lol...who knows, they have done it before....

[tigergorzow]

Yota Thanks, Excellent news..... DV,  Lets see if the KRG mainly the "Greedy" Barzani's will accept this offer made by both GOI & IMF.  It is time to move forward to the other priorities 140, HCL and finally the RV / RI of the IQD.....😊😊😁😁

[dinardiggerisme]

14% plus a few bribes on the side to Barzanis and Talabanis should get it...

[mr.unlikely]

What a bunch of predict-heads! With the CBI pushing the rate of the dinar up on the street to within 2% of bank rate, which, I feel, is a conscious effort made by the CBI to get the currency in line for the next step, it looks and feels like they are making ready for a big change. It doesn't seem prudent to wait 90 days at this rate, as that puts a significant change in the dinar value long after the next elections. 

No, if these boys want to get the investment that they need, they will have to get their Shiite dialed in pre election so that Abadi is the guy driving the bus for the next four years. The rest of those monkeys... Not to be trusted! 

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3 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

I have to LMAO. I feel like you and I could start one of those web business. The intro would be that "We have 30 Years of Dinar Experience". LOL.

 

The Preferred web site for the Picky Professionals, Professional. "We have 30 Years of Dinar Experience".   

[tigergorzow]

mr.unlikely,  Very well stated and I totally agree with your opinion & assessment.  We must 100 percent stay fully engaged in Iraq & ME going forward to keep the peace and deter Iran from spreading the terror.    Enough is enough and thank goodness we have President DJT & SEC  DEF Mattis at the helm.   

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On February 23, 2018 at 9:59 AM, King Bean said:

 

So as I've stated before, they can't complete their jobs NOW (getting paid to review and pass real laws)

     because they are focused on getting re-elected, so they can come back at end of summer.....

        and do NOTHING ?? I know, it's rhetorical. The question is the answer. Country full of.....

 

 

Truer words were never spoken - 

[DWS112]

Oh well...

Parliament postponed its meeting for one day (Wednesday)

 

 

The House of Representatives held its scheduled session next Tuesday one day to be held on Wednesday.

"The reason for the completion of all aspects of the financial budget for the current year 2018, in order to vote on Wednesday.

[Lcnljs2017]

Now Wednesday 😐😐😤😤

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1 hour ago, Lcnljs2017 said:

Now Wednesday 😐😐😤😤

 

Yep . . . first Tuesday, now Wednesday . . . next it will be " Postponed " until Sunday, and perhaps the arguing will go on & on. Guess we'll see, huh. 

 

They've shown us countless times before, their word is no damn good. Honestly, I will be very surprised if that actually vote AND pass the Budget this Wednesday.

[ChuckFinley]

13 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

 

The Preferred web site for the Picky Professionals, Professional. "We have 30 Years of Dinar Experience".   

That's a 

[yota691]

The Parliamentary Finance Committee meets today to discuss amendments to the federal budget law

 

 

 

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The National Alliance is moving towards passing the federal budget law in a parliamentary session to be held next Tuesday, despite objections by the Kurdish bloc and Sunni parties

But MP Mahasen Hamdoun said in a statement that the parliamentary finance committee did not meet to discuss amendments to the budget law, and is likely to meet today, adding that later.

And considers proposals and proposals by the Kurds to add legal or other removal requests. She stressed that the alliance of forces can not back down from his requests for budget.

 

[yota691]

 

Member of parliamentary law: We will resort to consensus if the masses and parliament worked to pass the budget

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BAGHDAD / Al-Ghad Press: 
A member of the Legal Committee parliamentary Zana Said, on Sunday, it must be resort to the consensus to pass the budget in the event of inability of the masses and parliament to do so. 
Said Said, "Al-Gharab Press," that "when the Parliament and parliamentary blocs can not reach a consensus on the budget, especially that some blocks adopt the vision of the government must be resort to consensus to pass."

He added that "the Kurdish blocs called for a high-level meeting of the three presidencies in the presence of the Finance Committee to reach compromise solutions to pass the budget law by national consensus and not by majority." 
He stressed that "the President of the Council announced the meeting of the three presidencies to discuss the budget, but has not been achieved so far." 
The parliamentary legal committee confirmed on Saturday that the next parliamentary session will witness the vote on the draft budget law for the year 2018.

[ChuckFinley]

Morning Yota and thank you for posting. Lets hope we can get this across the finish line.  

Edited February 25, 2018 by ChuckFinley

[yota691]

14 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said:

Morning

GM Morning to Chuck and all of DV...

[yota691]

25-02-2018 03:08 PM

The three presidencies will meet during the next 48 hours to resolve differences over the budget law

 

 

 

The decision of the House of Representatives Imad Juhna, on Sunday, a meeting expected for the three presidencies within the next 48 hours to resolve differences on the budget law before Wednesday's meeting next. 

"The three presidencies (the republic, the ministers and the House of Representatives) will meet within the next 48 hours to finalize a political agreement on the final passage of the budget," he said. 

He added, 'If the three presidencies agreed, the budget will be included in the vote during the next Wednesday session and passed.' 

The bloc of change revealed on Sunday a meeting expected to include the main Kurdish parties to discuss the offer of the federal government on raising the proportion of the province in the budget.

[yota691]

25-02-2018 02:04 PM

Kurdish parties meet in the coming hours on the budget

 

 

 

The Kurdish Change Movement, on Sunday, a meeting expected to include the main Kurdish parties to discuss the offer of the federal government on raising the proportion of the province in the budget, pointing to representatives of the Kurds in the Finance Committee parliamentary will make a full presentation of the updates that have been budgeted. 

"The Kurdish parties will meet within the next two days to issue an official response to the changes made by the government in the draft financial budget," said MP Shirin Reza. 

She added that 'representatives of the Kurds in the Parliamentary Finance Committee will make a presentation on the updates that were received in the budget and to discuss the possibility of passing the budget in the meeting next Wednesday'. 

Reza noted that 'the government began to deal with the crisis in a positive way and resolve outstanding issues with Erbil on the budget and other issues'.

[yota691]

 

Parliamentary finance include the proposals of oil provinces and about 70% of the requests of liberated areas in the budget of 2018

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BAGHDAD / 
A member of the Finance Committee of the parliamentary, on Sunday, the inclusion of the most important proposals in the draft budget in 2018, including grades for the liberated provinces. 
A member of the Finance Committee, Jabbar Abadi, in an interview with "Al-Ghad Press", "The most important proposals included in the draft budget in 2018 degrees of the governorates of the liberated," noting that "can not include any proposal for the Kurds to boycott the meetings of the Finance Committee."
"The meetings of the Finance Committee will resume on Tuesday, to resolve the proposals that will be added and voted in the Committee and is likely to be submitted to the House of Representatives for a vote at Wednesday's session or the next sessions and this depends on what we reached during the meeting." 
He pointed out that "these proposals were related to the oil-producing provinces and their share of the increase in oil prices and revenues of the border crossings, the abolition of the draft salary deduction, and continue the allowances and promotions, and the demands of the liberated provinces and stop the fulfillment of the benefits of loans for a certain period," pointing out that " For the material of peasants destroyed during the presence of a call and their grades, which have not been exploited the past period because of events.
Abadi pointed out that "about 60 to 70% of the requests of the liberated provinces were agreed upon and included as proposals for a draft law." He pointed out that "the Kurds boycotted the meetings of the Committee, therefore can not include any idea or proposal includes their proposals for their absence."

[yota691]

Agreement to increase the share of Kurdistan from the federal budget

 

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Shafak News / announced the decision of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives MP Ahmad Haji Rashid, on increasing the share of the Kurdistan Region of the federal budget to 14%. 
According to the National Union, Haji Rashid confirmed that the Kurdish deputies in the Finance Committee submitted the demands of the Kurdish blocs to the House of Representatives and proved to the deputies that the proportion of 12.67% has no legal basis and the Federal Ministry of Planning indicates that the proportion of the province of Kurdistan is 14%, and then generate The impression of the deputies that this is the most correct. 
He added that the deputies demanded to raise the proportion of the Kurdistan Region to 14% and stabilize this ratio, according to information obtained from reliable sources that this ratio has been installed in the budget by the federal government. 
He pointed out that the members of the Legal Committee in the House of Representatives confirmed the eligibility of the Kurds by 14% of the budget, stressing the found a great conviction among deputies on the stabilization of this ratio in the budget.
And the proportion of Kurds in the federal budget is one of the most problematic issues that delayed the adoption of the Iraqi budget. 
The share of Kurds in previous budgets reached 17%, and the debate during the current budget on the precise share of the Kurds at a time when the country lacks a census based on it to calculate the budget for the Kurdistan Region.

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[jcfrag]

I say they should take over fiscal responsibilities of the Kurdish army and place them directly under the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. That would effectively put some Iraqi warriors in Kurdistan learning from the Kurds and Kurdish warriors in the rest of Iraq teaching. Keep the troops in one year rotations being stationed at various camps throughout Iraq surveying weaknesses and fixing the holes in the dam. From their create a Corp if Engineers to navigate new water projects and create jobs for private companies within Iraq! That would be an excellent way to justify bumping it up to 14% and they can pay the rest of their own GOI, granted annual outside audits of the books are written into law.  They could do so much right now with the Kurds to bring them into the fold of Iraq....   

Edited February 25, 2018 by jcfrag

[fnbplanet]

IMO, someone or some deadline seems to be driving this latest push to all-of-a-sudden come to a budget agreement.  We all know they have no sense of urgency on their own, and wouldn't care if it dragged out until July.  My guess is that there were other items that needed to happen or be accomplished before they could move on to the next step of Monetary Reform, and that those items have been completed or are very close to fruition, and now the Budget is the next step in the process.  

 

Any guesses as to what happens as the immediate next step after the budget is a done deal?  Just curious.

[ChuckFinley]

4 hours ago, fnbplanet said:

IMO, someone or some deadline seems to be driving this latest push to all-of-a-sudden come to a budget agreement.  We all know they have no sense of urgency on their own, and wouldn't care if it dragged out until July.  My guess is that there were other items that needed to happen or be accomplished before they could move on to the next step of Monetary Reform, and that those items have been completed or are very close to fruition, and now the Budget is the next step in the process.  

 

Any guesses as to what happens as the immediate next step after the budget is a done deal?  Just curious.

Agree, they are really pushing this budget deal. There is a business conference around the corner. Got bitched slappedlast time out. They need a change something asap. The heat is on.

[NoviceInvestor]

Tuesday's meeting  now becomes Wednesday's meeting and......

Edited February 25, 2018 by NoviceInvestor

[yota691]

Deputy to / Mawazin News /: The governments of Baghdad and Erbil reached a near-total agreement on the budget

 

 Since 2018-02-25 at 17:45 (Baghdad time)

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Revealed a member of the House of Representatives Harith al-Harithi, Sunday, the reach of the federal governments and the Kurdistan region to a near-complete consensus on the share of the current budget this year, indicating that the meeting of the three presidencies scheduled to be held on Monday will address the need for Parliament to approve the draft budget law.

Al-Harithi told Mawazin News that "there is a near-total agreement between Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Kurdistan Regional Government President on the sidelines of their meeting the Munich Security Conference held in mid-February on the draft budget law in Parliament," noting that " Managed to convince the Kurds with their share of up to 14% instead of 12% as stated in the draft law.

Al-Harthy said that "the Kurdish deputies, especially the deputies of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, insist on stubbornness and shelved any solutions offered by the government to pass the budget unless their demands are met, which is the proportion of the Kurds from the budget, 17%."  

On the meeting of the three presidencies on Monday, Al-Harthy explained that "the presidential meeting will see the discussion of the budget and the mechanism passed in the House of Representatives, because most of the state institutions are suspended from work due to delay the adoption of the budget."

Revealed the House of Representatives Emad Jokna, on Sunday, a meeting expected for the three presidencies within the next 48 hours to resolve differences on the budget law. Ended 29/5

[DropItLikeItsHot]

19 minutes ago, yota691 said:

the proportion of the Kurds from the budget, 17%

So they gave'em the 14%......

They pissed and moaned to get the 14%

Now the Bastards want 17%

All I can say is WTF!