IMF: 2018 Iraqi draft budget won't 'cover the needs' of Kurdistan

[NoviceInvestor]

6 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

We should be reaching the Crisis Event pretty soon now. It's had a great buildup

What are you anticipating as the Crisis Event.. Parliament in Urgent Recess for a Camel Burial .. 

[newbieDA]

JMHO I think Article 140 needs to completed still. Kurdistan needs to get into the e-goverance computer system and stop the double payments, fake employees, fake projects so this all can get done and the Corruption charges can start.

[Flash101]

3 hours ago, newbieDA said:

JMHO I think Article 140 needs to completed still. Kurdistan needs to get into the e-goverance computer system and stop the double payments, fake employees, fake projects so this all can get done and the Corruption charges can start.

+1 agreed

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4 hours ago, NoviceInvestor said:

What are you anticipating as the Crisis Event.. Parliament in Urgent Recess for a Camel Burial .. 

. . . And it's Monkey Jockey. 

[Butifldrm]

Deputy: Abadi received 12 requests are impossible for the budget of 2018

SECTION: POLITICALJANUARY 5, 2018 6:28 PM

Deputy: Abadi received 12 requests are impossible for the budget of 2018

 

Baghdad / Baghdadiya News / .... The deputy state law Abdul Salam al-Maliki, on Friday, the receipt of the Prime Minister, Haider Abadi, 12 requests from the Western provinces for financial allocations within the budget of 2018.

"Al-Abbadi received 12 requests from the Western provinces liberated from terrorism on financial allocations within the budget of 2018," Maliki said in a press statement, followed by the Baghdadiya News, that "it is difficult to include those demands in the budget because some of these demands are the allocation Money for the reconstruction of liberated areas and the return of police personnel in the provinces that entered the dues and pay their salaries retroactively and other impossible demands. "

Maliki added that "the reason for the disruption of the budget law is (cartel alliances) to get gains, although everyone knows that the budget austerity."

He continued, "Some are already reviewing his electoral constituency and make the budget law vulnerable to political disruptions and this is illogical, we are in one boat and Parliament support the government."

He explained that "Iraq sells oil and turned its imports to the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank and uses these imports as an operational budget and pay salaries," calling for "to invest in the donor conference, under which Iraq will receive funds and assistance for the reconstruction of liberated areas, which need billions of dollars, which is impossible to be covered by the budget of the year Current 2018 "

 

http://www.albaghdadiyanews.com/?p=93407

[Butifldrm]

Deputies: an agreement not to include the budget in future meetings

SECTION: SLIDE NEWSJANUARY 7, 2018 8:19 PM

Deputies: an agreement not to include the budget in future meetings

 

Baghdad / Baghdadiya News .. The parliamentary legal committee, on Sunday, an agreement between the political blocs and the Presidency of the House of Representatives not to include the budget law on the agenda of the meetings of the next Council.

"There is an agreement between the political blocs and the presidency of the Council not to include the budget and the election law on the agenda of the meeting tomorrow and the upcoming meetings until a political consensus is reached on them," said a member of the committee, Kamel al-Zaidi.

He added that "the Union of forces and Kurdish blocs threatened to boycott the meeting tomorrow if the budget is included on the agenda of implementation," noting that "the meetings will remain open without budget."

 

http://www.albaghdadiyanews.com/?p=94161

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1 hour ago, Butifldrm said:

Deputies: an agreement not to include the budget in future meetings

SECTION: SLIDE NEWSJANUARY 7, 2018 8:19 PM

Deputies: an agreement not to include the budget in future meetings

 

Baghdad / Baghdadiya News .. The parliamentary legal committee, on Sunday, an agreement between the political blocs and the Presidency of the House of Representatives not to include the budget law on the agenda of the meetings of the next Council.

"There is an agreement between the political blocs and the presidency of the Council not to include the budget and the election law on the agenda of the meeting tomorrow and the upcoming meetings until a political consensus is reached on them," said a member of the committee, Kamel al-Zaidi.

He added that "the Union of forces and Kurdish blocs threatened to boycott the meeting tomorrow if the budget is included on the agenda of implementation," noting that "the meetings will remain open without budget."

 

http://www.albaghdadiyanews.com/?p=94161

 

UH, WHAT ? I know I have the flu ( and heavily medicated to boot ) and some stuff isn't making much sense right now - like this article. Are they saying " lets kick this can really far down the road ? " and/or " We'll all agree to ignore the 800 pound Gorilla in the room - until this or that might take place ' in the near future ' ?"

[DoD]

8 minutes ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

 

UH, WHAT ? I know I have the flu ( and heavily medicated to boot ) and some stuff isn't making much sense right now - like this article. Are they saying " lets kick this can really far down the road ? " and/or " We'll all agree to ignore the 800 pound Gorilla in the room - until this or that might take place ' in the near future ' ?"

 

10YL, the only way they can continue to have a quarum without a lot of boycotting is to keep the budget out of the agenda. Once all the parties have agreed to the terms of the new budget they will include it into the next parliament session. 

[DinarThug]

2018/01/08 (00:01 PM) - Number of readings: 11 - Number (4105)

 

 

Controversy over the budget upset the quorum of the second session of parliament

Baghdad / Range 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Sunday, that the parliament intends to issue a decision to lift the immunity of deputies rose against them lawsuits.

In May last year, Meskdad talked about a list of 16 MPs calling for the judiciary to lift their immunity because of libel and libel suits. The list also includes wanted individuals on charges of wasting public money and terrorism. The list consists of 12 Shiite deputies, and four deputies a year, and faces some lawmakers more than a lawsuit.

In the course of yesterday's session, al-Jubouri suspended the resignation of MP Mutashar al-Samarrai, which angered some MPs who accused him of selling his parliamentary seat. Yesterday's session saw a verbal altercation between the Speaker of the House of Representatives and some members of the Liberal bloc about the legality of the resignation of MP Al-Samarrai. 

The parliament held yesterday, chaired by Salim al-Jubouri and the presence of 195 deputies, and voted on two parliamentary decisions, and decided to keep its meeting open and to be resumed on Monday. 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, according to a statement received by (the extent) yesterday, that "the intention to issue a decision to lift the immunity of all those named books of the Supreme Judicial Council to go to the judiciary to resolve the issues," stressing that "the House of Representatives will not allow the protection of any person" . 

Article 20 (II) of the House of Representatives' rules of procedure states that "a member may not be arrested during the term of the legislative term unless he is accused of a felony, and with the absolute majority of the members to lift his immunity or if he is caught committing the crime of a crime." 

Article 20 (III) provides that "a member may not be arrested outside the term of the legislative term unless he is accused of a felony, and with the consent of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies to lift his immunity or if he is caught committing a felony." 

And on the controversy raised by the resignation of MP Mutashar al-Samarrai, said Jubouri that "the law gave the right to any deputy if he wants to resign, and this is what happened with MP Mutashar al-Samarrai, who submitted his resignation for satisfactory reasons." 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives that "the alternative for the resigning MP is determined by the Electoral Commission on the basis of official books in this regard where a request was submitted by Mr. Ammar al-Samarrai, who pointed out that the highest losers of the bloc headed by Mr. Muthanna al-Samarrai, Nujaifi that the highest losers of the bloc headed by Mr. Jassem Mumtaz Jassim instead of the resigned MP, and the requests were referred to the Electoral Commission and the Legal Committee. 

The head of the parliament that "the Electoral Commission confirmed that the highest losers within the bloc and the entity is Mr. Muthanna Abdul Samad," referring to the receipt of "a request from MP Riyad Ghali on the candidates Monday and to refer the matter to the Legal Committee to discuss the resignation and alternative." He added that "the request was submitted and delivered by hand to the Legal Committee, which showed that there is no legal or constitutional impediment to submit the resignation of a member of the House of Representatives and that the alternative of the same entity and the province and the highest losers and there is no legal impediment to replace Mr. Muthanna al-Samarrai resigned MP Mutashar Samurai," asserting that " But the application of the law and those who object to resort to the judiciary known contexts. 

In another context, the Speaker of the House of Representatives said that "the draft budget law on the agenda is pushing some parliamentary blocs to not enter the session, which leads to the lack of quorum," pointing to "the existence of debate on the financial budget with the government, which indicated the possibility of amendments On the bill ". 

He called on the financial and economic committees to "complete the budget consultations for the purpose of including the draft law on the agenda." 

In the same context, Jubouri said that "the parliament will raise the issue of conviction or not on the answers of the Minister of Communications in the meeting on Sunday next to be in the meeting next Monday to set a date to question the Minister of Electricity as well as a schedule of all requests for interrogations provided." 

The House of Representatives had questioned the Minister of Communications Hassan al-Rashed at the request of MP Hoda Sajjad, late last December. 

In a related context, the House of Representatives finished reading and discussing the proposed law of the House of Representatives and its composition. 

MP Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, according to a statement by the media department, called for "tightening the procedures that oblige the government to implement the decisions taken by the House of Representatives." 

The Council also completed the reading of a report and discussion of the Turkmen Human Rights Bill submitted by the Commission on Human Rights. The Parliament completed the reading of the report and discussion of the proposed law of Samarra, the capital of Islamic culture submitted by the committees of tourism, archeology and law. 

The House of Representatives started the first reading of the draft law of the Information and Communications Commission, submitted by the committees of services, reconstruction, culture and information, to be completed reading at a future session.[/size]

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22 minutes ago, DoD said:

 

10YL, the only way they can continue to have a quarum without a lot of boycotting is to keep the budget out of the agenda. Once all the parties have agreed to the terms of the new budget they will include it into the next parliament session. 

Thanks

[DinarThug]

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The 2018 budget and the election season in Iraq

 

19th February, 2018 by Dr. Haidar Hussein Al-Tohma
The correlation between the disruption of the adoption of the budget and the approach of the election of many of the question marks on the performance of the political system and the nature of the fragile relationship between the parliamentary authority and government, despite the emergence of the latter from the first.

The current scene recalls the failure of the Iraqi parliament to pass the budget law in 2014, despite months of debate and debate between the legislative authority and the executive. As the 2018 elections approach, the scene repeats again, often for the same reasons, but this time in a more common context of corruption and political extortion. Where it seems that a large part of the parliamentary blocs are trying hard to get the bulk of the "legitimate gains" for voters to ensure the acquisition of the electoral vote, and "illegal" to double the revenues of the economic committees of the parties of the Authority and the upcoming election season in need of resources, "also" to ensure the acquisition On the electoral vote.

For months, the House of Representatives has witnessed several differences between the political blocs on the provisions of the draft budget law for the year 2018, and looks opportunities to approve the federal budget is slim because of the growing dispute between the government and the parliamentary blocs. The number of observations of the Sunni forces on the draft budget (12) Note mostly related to raising the share of liberated areas in the public budget and financing programs of construction and reconstruction, while the Kurdish blocks (9) Notes are concentrated part of the increase in the share of the region and the disbursement of salaries and others, Of the oil in the center and south has focused on the share (petrodollar), and is paid the amount of (5) dollars for each barrel (5%) of the value of each barrel of a product? Or to grant them amounts in the form of future bonds to be paid when the government's financial abundance is realized.

Draft Budget 2018 in the framework of successive budgets

 

The tight link between oil and budget funding in Iraq explains a large part of the submerged question: Why have the public budgets in Iraq been approved within the time limits set during the past three years? The answer lies in oil prices. The parliamentary experience in Iraq has revealed an inverse relationship between the adoption of the budget and the price of crude oil on world markets. When prices rise and oil revenue flows in abundance, the struggle is raging over the gains and gains that power parties can get from the various items of the public budget (this is what happened in the pre-2013 budgets). All arguments and reasons are kept under the pretext of defending the rights of the citizen in a way that is tacky and far from patriotic, credible and persuasive in many cases.

The same scenario is repeated in the 2016 budget and the budget of 2017, when the time has been set. With the recovery of crude oil prices and the touching of the $ 70 threshold by the end of 2017, the conflict has started again on the budget items and allocations, without paying attention to the volatile nature of oil prices or the accumulated public debt (about
$ 120 billion) due to the current financial crisis.

What is required of the government?

 

The main financial challenges in Iraq are the continued dependence of the general budget on oil, at least two thirds, the approach of the oil countries in general and Iraq's successive governments in particular. As the central government uses the opportunity of falling oil prices during the past years in an appropriate manner to establish the principles of the rule of law and the activation of non-oil revenues such as taxes and fees and review the revenues of state real estate and reduce the size of public institutions and lean and dependent on the budget to achieve sustainability and survival, The private.

On the other hand, the absence of programs and strategies of economic reform in the government budgets is a serious vulnerability that threatens the role of fiscal policy in achieving the desired economic reform and further disrupts financial instruments in taking its desired role in revitalizing the economy and pushing it towards stability and sustainable economic growth instead of frightening exposure to Loans and world oil markets.

It should not rely on the recovery of oil prices in the design of the budget and set the price of oil does not exceed (46) dollars a barrel as stated in the text of the budget, to devote the remaining amount in the feed fund to pay Iraq's internal and external debt instead of the swap of sovereignty loans Currently under way).

On the other hand, the policy of providing the difference between the price of market oil and the price fixed in the budget in a sovereign account may establish future sovereign funds dedicated to stability and secure the rights of generations, as is the case in many oil countries.

On the other hand, the golden rule in the management of public finance must be adhered to. All public loans should be allocated to finance investment projects and current expenditures should be financed exclusively from sovereign revenues. With the need to pay attention to the adoption of the current approach to the allocation and implementation of investment expenditure is an outlet for corruption and manipulation of public money. If capital investment projects are to be approved under sound feasibility studies, they should be discussed with government agencies on the basis of value in exchange for financial allocation, and government contracts should be concluded on an experienced basis to emerge from suspicious practices that have led to delays and failures.

As for taxation, it should be emphasized that the call to activate the role of taxes in financing the public budget does not necessarily mean raising the tax rate, as understood by many politicians in Iraq and trying to broadcast it to the public through the media channels for electoral purposes, but is intended to expand the tax containers to achieve profusion in tax revenue and limitation Of the tax evasion practiced by most of the institutions and companies and sectors of trade and business in Iraq.

Finally, in conjunction with the Kuwait conference of donor countries, it should be noted that the conflict between the government and the parliament and growing suspicions of waste and corruption that frame the management of public finances in Iraq and impede the adoption of the budget, in light of the decline of budget transparency and the absence of clear programs and strategies, sent a negative cable to donors and companies Investment, weakened the chances of Iraq to obtain the funding required to complete the programs of construction and reconstruction, and will reduce the opportunities for the flow of foreign investment to the national economy for fear of passing through the corruption and extortion rings that affected the work of relevant government institutions.

[ChuckFinley]

Thanks Thug, just keep on keeping on with this group.  

[DinarThug]

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Al-Mahna: The budget will pass by majority after the approval of part of the Kurds to approve it

09:11 - 20/02/2018  

 

The deputy of the National Alliance Sadik al-Mahna, on Tuesday, the removal of many obstacles that stood in front of the adoption of the law of the general budget, while stressing that some Kurdish lawmakers agreed to pass the law, it is likely to vote by majority during the coming sessions.

Al-Mahna said in a statement that the budget will be passed during the next session of the House of Representatives as a result of overcoming many of the obstacles that stood in front of the passage of the budget, "pointing out that" the meeting of the three presidencies with the Finance Committee will bring greater impetus to pass the budget. "

Al-Mahna added that "the budget will pass by a majority of the National Alliance and the Union of Forces and part of the deputies of the Kurds during the coming sessions," noting that "17% ended because it was given in accordance with moods and political consensus." 

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Deputy for wisdom: Iraq is the only country that approves its budgets without presenting the "final accounts"

 

 

21st February, 2018
The deputy of the parliamentary wisdom bloc, Ahlam al-Husseini, on Wednesday, that the failure to submit the final accounts of the previous budget, by the government is unconstitutional and pervasive corruption.  "Iraq is the only country that approves its budgets without presenting its government for final accounts, and does not offer corruption and waste to billions of dollars," al-Husseini said in a statement.

 

She added that "this leads to create economic chaos lived and lived in Iraq over the past years, and became the phenomenon of non-submission of the final accounts is normal, but it came to the demand to submit is the strange phenomenon."  Al-Husseini pointed out that "the failure of the government of Abbadi to the final accounts of the previous budgets is contrary to the constitutional article sixty-two first, which provides for the submission of the budget and final accounts by the Council of Ministers to the House of Representatives," stressing the need to "statement of seriousness of the government in the fight against corruption through the submission of accounts Closing ". 

The member of the Committee on Economy and Investment Representative Zitoun Dulaimi, confirmed earlier, the absence of final accounts for the budget this year, noting that the budget next year was built on the basis of speculation, confirmed the illegality of passing without the existence of such calculations.

[DinarThug]

Expectations of a vote on the budget next Tuesday

22/2/2018 12:00 am 

 

144 billion dinars for people with disabilities and 200 million dollars for small projects 

Baghdad / Sabah / Omar Abdul Latif 

While the Kurdistan Alliance is still adhering to its position and insisting on not attending the parliamentary sessions until its demands are met, the parliamentary finance committee suggested the possibility of voting on the draft general budget for 2018 in Tuesday's session next week, revealing the allocation of 200 million dollars for small income-generating projects. 

Restitution of employee rights 
A member of the Finance Committee Magda Abdul Latif al-Tamimi said in an interview with Al-Sabah: "Several amendments have been made to the budget to ensure greater interest to citizens and employees in general, including the abolition of paragraph deduction of a percentage of salaries (3.8) percent by general agreement by members of the Committee and find An alternative to the decline that will be due to this cancellation, in addition to lifting the restriction on promotions and allowances and delete and development after it came from the government as a natural right to the work of the employee. 
Tamimi added that "the budget included an increase of 144 billion dinars for the disabled victims of terrorism or those who responded to terrorism," and urged "supervisors to sponsor them after the amount allocated to them in the budget of 60 billion only as salaries without providing any assistance to the breadwinner," indicating that " Amount to the emergency reserve clause of 2 trillion dinars. 
The committee member added that "200 million dollars have been allocated for the establishment of small and income-generating projects for the employment of young people instead of remaining unemployed." To the presence of 40 million dollars added to the social welfare network. " 
Tamimi pointed out that "the Kurdistan Alliance is unique to the rest of the parliamentary blocs to object to some paragraphs of the budget, the most important proportion of the region, which should be 13 percent according to the ration card as the standard applied to all Iraqis, instead of the 17 percent in force previously," expected to "vote Parliament on the draft budget in the meeting next Tuesday. " 
Rebalancing the government 
"The Finance Committee told us that within a week, the amendment to the federal budget law of 2018 will end," Speaker of the House of Representatives Saleem al-Jubouri announced after Saturday's session. 
In turn, the MP for the State of Law Jassem Mohammed Jaafar, that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives will hold a meeting with the heads of political blocs to discuss the transfer of 1 percent of the budget funds and convince the political blocs need to pass," noting that "failure to reach a solution on the budget will lead to Re-draft the government for a third amendment to it. " 
Jaafar added that "the Kurdish deputies have become fully convinced that the possibility of increasing the proportion of the Kurdistan region and to return to 17 percent as it was," noting at the same time that "the Union of forces is strongly opposed to the amendments that took place." 
Jaafar pointed out that "the continuation of the boycott of political blocs meetings and not to submit to the vote will force the Presidency of Parliament to re-draft the budget law again to the government for the purpose of a third amendment or complete the fiscal year without balancing and work according to Law (12/1) 

Between {powers} and {Kurds} 
However, the MP for the coalition of Iraqi forces, Ahmad al-Jubouri, likely to pass the budget in the absence of Kurdish deputies, conditional on that to stimulate the National Alliance of deputies to attend and the presence of deputies of the Alliance of Forces. He said Jubouri, in a press statement: "The federal budget will pass by the political majority and the absence of the Kurds," explaining that "the National Alliance if he could stimulate his deputies to attend and the presence of a number of deputies of the Alliance of forces can be passed," noting that "the proportion of 17 percent of the region has become The past despite the insistence of representatives of the Kurds on them. " And while the MP for the bloc of the wisdom of the parliamentary Hassan Khalati, in a statement, that "everyone has the conviction and desire to pass the federal budget for the current year," and expected that "all reach an agreement to pass the budget within the minimum limits of consensus, The attention that "quotas and consensus caused the obstruction of the work of the government and parliament alike," stressing that "a lot of important laws and legislation is disabled as a result of political consensus." 
On the other hand, said MP from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Berwan Musleh Khailani: "The demands of the Kurdish blocs within the Constitution does not reduce the value of the budget," excluded "pass it at the moment because of the major differences on them," she said.

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[Butifldrm]

Parliamentary finance likely to approve the budget next Tuesday

Release Date: 2018/2/22 9:07 • 386 times read

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) revealed the Finance Committee parliamentary, for important amendments to the paragraphs of the draft budget law for the year 2018.

"Several amendments have been made to the budget, including clauses to ensure greater interest to citizens and employees in general, including the abolition of the paragraph of the deduction of a percentage of salaries, 3.8%, by general agreement by the members of the Committee, as well as a member of the Committee, Majida Abdel Latif Tamimi said in a press statement. To find an alternative to the decline that will be caused by this cancellation, in addition to lifting the restriction on promotions and allowances and delete and development after it came from the government as a natural right to the work of the employee. 
Tamimi added that "the budget included an increase of 144 billion dinars for the disabled victims of terrorism or those who responded to terrorism and called for the care of supervisors, as well as the allocation of 200 million dollars to establish small and income-generating projects for the employment of young people instead of remaining unemployed. 
Al-Tamimi expected that "the parliament will vote on the draft budget in the parliament session - scheduled - next Tuesday."

 

 

 

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Deputy Union of Forces: We agreed in principle with the National Alliance to pass the budget

10:20 - 25/02/2018  

MP of the Union of Forces Noura al-Bajari, on Sunday, agreed with the National Alliance on the vote on the budget, pointing out that this agreement depends on the implementation of the demands, especially in the liberated areas of "Daash."

Al-Bajari said in a statement that the National Alliance discussed with the Alliance of Forces and reached satisfactory results on the vote on the budget, noting that "the approval will be conditional on the implementation of the demands of the deputies of the liberated areas of Daqash."

She added that "the agreement between the two alliances was in principle, as many of the deputies, including the deputies of the provinces affected by the Daash, have not yet agreed to pass the budget, demanding the rights of their areas and provide funds for reconstruction and return of displaced persons.

The parliamentary legal committee announced on Saturday, the inclusion of the budget to vote on the agenda of the meeting next Wednesday in the event of a quorum. 

[gregp]

The parliamentary legal committee announced on Saturday, the inclusion of the budget to vote on the agenda of the meeting next Wednesday in the event of a quorum. 

 

Let’s hope they show up to work.  

[DinarThug]

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Decision of the Parliament about the provision of more than 3 billion dinars for the absence of deputies
 

26th February, 2018
The decision of the House of Representatives, the architect Niazi Oglu, on Monday, the provision of Parliament more than three billion dinars of its budget for the absence of deputies through the deduction of their salaries.  "The House of Representatives and the Presidency, like other institutions and other presidencies that have been agreed on the consensus and quotas in the political process," noting that "the House of Representatives adopted in the absence of the MP was fined and cut from the salary for MP 500 Thousand dinars for every day absence without excuse. "

 

He added that "the Presidency has already warned the political blocs in the absence of members and did not see any response to the presence of the absentees," pointing out that "the Presidency since the beginning of the session could not control the absences."  "The parliamentary committee, which was formed to amend the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives for more than a year, has not worked, as the amendments committee," said Niazi Oglu in the next parliamentary session, "there will be an amendment to the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives and the adoption of a law for the parliament to act as an independent institution." Constitutional. " 

He pointed out that "the Presidency has implemented its decision to fine the absentee MPs, and the parliament saved more than three billion dinars for the absence of deputies throughout his term Parliamentary "elections.

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A report reveals the political differences within the parliament on the budget of 2018 .. The National Alliance rejects the proposal of Abbadi

 

 

26th February, 2018
Published on the new Arab newspaper, on Monday, a report on the political differences within the corridors of parliament on the financial budget for the current year, as revealed a proposal put forward by Prime Minister Haider Abadi to satisfy the Kurds by increasing the share of the Kurdistan region, but parties in the National Alliance rejected, The newspaper, to pass without the need to attend the Kurdish parliamentarians.

The newspaper said that "the political debate on the passage of the budget of 2018, which is opposed by political blocs escalated," indicating that "the ruling National Alliance rejects a proposal to Prime Minister Haider Abadi raise the proportion of Kurdistan, to pass the budget, causing a dispute will hamper the possibility of that "He said.

"Abadi has received approvals from the National Alliance and the Alliance of Forces on the passage of the budget, while the dispute is limited about allocations of the Kurdistan region," he said, adding that "Abadi has a proposal to raise the percentage of Kurdistan, more than 12%, but that Not as high as 17%, as in the past. "

He added that "this proposal has the acceptance of Kurdish, in return for rejection by the National Alliance," noting that "the National Alliance deputies reject this proposal categorically and do not accept any increase on the proportion of the Kurdistan region, causing a new political controversy will block the possibility of passing Budget ".

The newspaper pointed out that "the deputies and officials Kurds insist on increasing the proportion of the region, and rejected the proportion of them, which is 12%, which was by 17%."

The newspaper quoted the MP from the Kurdistan Alliance, Tavka Ahmed, saying, "So far did not clarify any proportion of the budget of Kurdistan, and the debate is still underway on raising the proportion of the province of the budget," adding that "differences still top the situation, within the parliament, On the budget ".

Ahmed pointed out that "it is not possible to rely on the economic ratio determined by the Ministry of Planning of Iraq." The MP Ahmed Haji said in an interview today that the proportion of Kurdistan in the budget has become 14% instead of 12%.

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Decision of Parliament: negotiations on the budget has reached its final stages

13:30 - 26/02/2018  

Revealed the decision of the House of Representatives Imad Juhna, on Monday, the conclusion of the technical committee parliamentary charged with negotiating with the government to the final stages on the amendment of the draft budget, noting that the House of Representatives is ready to submit the passage of the budget during the meeting next Wednesday.

 "The technical committee formed by the House of Representatives during the last period in order to negotiate with the government on the amendment of the draft budget law has reached its final stages," he said in a statement.

 He added that "the committee will submit its detailed report to the House of Representatives and the Finance Committee to discuss the latest changes and the current negotiations reached," stressing "the Parliament's readiness to pass the budget during Wednesday's session in the event of approval by the political blocs on the changes that have been made."

The Kurdistan Democratic Party headed by Massoud Barzani refused on Monday, to allocate 14% of the budget for the year 2018 for the Kurdistan region, stressing that it is insufficient to cover the salaries of staff of the region. 

[gregp]

The wheels on the bus go blah! Blah! Blah!

 

                   

[stangernan]

9 minutes ago, gregp said:

The wheels on the bus go blah! Blah! Blah!

 

                   

  Your playing my Song!!!  I have Been singing that for years!!   

[stangernan]

It's funny cause my brother sings it to me now   the Bla Bla Bla song 

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Iraq's parliament lists the budget in today's session in preparation for approval amid the province of the Kurds

 

28th February, 2018
Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri on Tuesday announced a satisfactory formula for all political parties on the financial budget for 2018. 

His press office said in a statement that " , A meeting with the President and members of the Finance Committee parliamentary, where was during the meeting to finalize the law of the general budget for the year 2018 », explaining that Jubouri« the price of the great efforts made by the Committee in overcoming the obstacles and resolve the points of contention that hinder the adoption of the budget law within the constitutional timing » . 

He stressed that the «ongoing discussions led to a satisfactory formula for all parties», adding that «the end of the budget law will give messages of reassurance to all parties, and the next phase will see the start of the page of construction and reconstruction and the return of security and stability in the country».

The meeting came under the province of Kurdish political blocs, because of the failure to implement the demands of increasing the share of the Kurdistan region of the federal budget for the current year, after the Iraqi government decided to reduce from 17% to 12%, according to Kurdish media.  Immediately after the meeting, the House of Representatives announced the finalization of the draft budget and its inclusion in the agenda of Wednesday's session.

The parliament's presidency said in a brief statement that «the Finance Committee of the parliament completed the final draft of the budget bill 2018», adding that «the budget was on the agenda of the Council to vote tomorrow (today)».
A coalition of state law led by Nuri al-Maliki called on the House of Representatives and the Finance Committee, to bear the "moral responsibility" towards the Iraqi people, and the adoption of the budget as soon as possible and away from political differences and demands «illegal». "The House of Representatives must be decisive in approving the budget of 2018, because it concerns the lives of the people in terms of services, projects, benefits, etc., Borders and taxes. " 

He revealed that «the adoption of the budget in need of the completion of the quorum (165 deputies out of the total 328), which is broken because of the demand of the Kurds by 17% and the withdrawal of the Union of forces from the hearings for their desire to achieve some demands and gains» he said.  He added: "The biggest responsibility lies with everyone, especially the National Alliance, which forms two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives." He pointed out «although the budget does not meet the aspirations and needs of the Iraqi people in all respects, but it is important to include the benefits of oil-producing provinces and distributed fairly.