The House of Representatives completes tomorrow the first reading of the budget law for the year 2018

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Deputy: Presidency of the Parliament committed a violation of constitutional and legal return of the budget to the government

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BAGHDAD / 
A member of the parliamentary finance committee MP Jabbar al-Abadi said on Saturday that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives has committed a serious constitutional and legal violation by returning the Maznah project to the government, pointing out that personal and electoral interests have delayed approving the budget law.
Abadi said in a statement received "Al-Ghad Press" a copy of it, "The Presidency of the House of Representatives return the draft budget law to the government, although the Council did not vote on it and while enjoying the Council's legislative holidays, represents a violation of constitutional and legal great," he wondered how to deal The Presidency of the Council with the most important law in this way, and how to confiscate the opinion of the House of Representatives " 
He added that" the Presidency of the Council exceeded the powers granted to it, there is first mechanism to return the draft laws and second law of the budget can not be returned because Article 62 of the Constitution limited the authority of the Council to approve only , Or amendments to it according to The powers granted, as Article 52 (the Council of Ministers submit the draft budget law and the final account to the House of Representatives for approval).
"The delay in approving this law for the personal and electoral interests of some is causing great harm to the state and the citizen. After the presidency of the council refused to allow the Finance Committee to read the bill first reading in the special session, we are surprised today by its return to the government." He called on the presidency of the council to include a bill The general budget on the agenda of the closest session of the House of Representatives. "

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Abadi economy is the return of the budget law of the government "unconstitutional"

 

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MP Jabbar al-Abadi said on Saturday that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to return the draft budget law to the government, although the Council did not vote for it and while enjoying the Council's legislative holiday "a violation of constitutional and legal great."

Abadi said in a statement to twilight News surprised by the "dealing with the presidency of the Council with the most important law in this way, and how to seize the opinion of the House of Representatives, it exceeded the powers granted to them."

"There is first a mechanism to return the draft laws and secondly the law of the general budget, can not be returned because Article 62 of the Constitution limited the validity of the Council to approve only, or amendments to it in accordance with the powers granted, as Article 52 provides that the Council of Ministers draft budget law and the final account to House of Representatives for approval. "

He explained that "the delay in approving this law for the personal and electoral interests of some is causing great harm to the state and the citizen. After the presidency refused to allow the Finance Committee to read the bill first reading at the special session, we are surprised today to bring it back to the government.

Abadi stressed that "the presidency of the Council is required to include the draft budget law on the agenda of the closest session of the House of Representatives."

 

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[mr.unlikely]

git er done boys!

[yota691]

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Parliament offers 35 amendments to the budget and the government apologizes for its acceptance

 Baghdad / Mohammed Sabah 
 

The 2018 budget faces a similar fate to the 2014 budget, the year in which large parts of the country were invaded.

The objections of various parliamentary parties threaten that the next fiscal year will be without budget. This speculation was reinforced by a public announcement issued by the Ministry of Finance calling on the state institutions to spend in accordance with the formula of 1/12 of them, in case the budget is not approved or delayed. 
The House of Representatives ended the last legislative season in the fiscal year without succeeding in approving the budget next year as stipulated by the Constitution. 
Despite this, the political blocs and the concerned committees continued their efforts to prepare the draft budget for the first reading after the resumption of parliamentary sessions early next month.
The parliamentary blocs gathered their remarks in which they expressed their dissatisfaction with some of the provisions of this draft, which exceeded the 35 observations stipulated by the government included in the draft for discussion in the House of Representatives. The observations are focused on petrodollar allocations, reconstruction allocations in the liberated areas, and the budget of the Kurdistan region. But MPs have blamed the International Monetary Fund for part of the delay in approving the budget because of negotiations with government delegations on cutting public spending and international loans. 
The government sent the federal budget bill for 2018 to Parliament last November, at the last session of the legislative chapter.
"The transfer of the federal budget law for the year 2018 to the parliamentary finance committee involves a legal violation, because the House of Representatives has not decided to accept the draft sent by the government," said MP Ahmad Hama Rashid, the committee's financial advisor. "It is supposed to the House of Representatives to introduce the federal budget law to vote on its acceptance in principle to be referred to the Finance Committee or rejected and then returned to the government by the Presidency of the House of Representatives."
The decision of the Finance Committee attributed the delay of Parliament to introduce the budget law to "the reluctance of the government to send the budget law for more than fifty days, which made it difficult task on the House of Representatives, which entered the legislative holiday," confirming the arrival of the budget on 29/11 late hours. "The causes of the budget delay in the government is due to the negotiations that were conducted by the government committees with the International Monetary Fund on loans and reduce expenditures in the federal budget." 
The Kurdish MP believes "the inability of parliament to pass the federal budget for next year due to disagreements and observations by the blocks on the project," pointing out that "at the end of each parliamentary session was no budget, and Sinaro will be repeated in 2014." The member of the Finance Committee that "the political blocs have electoral programs so enter the budget within the electoral bidders"
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim Jubouri referred, earlier this month, the budget law 2018 to the Finance Committee to prepare a final version and collect all the observations and objections that belong to the blocks and integration in the project. 
The House of Representatives concluded on November 29, its final legislative term in 2017. The Parliament held an extraordinary session to discuss the election law and the 2018 budget, but failed to discuss the two files. 
The federal budget was estimated at 108 trillion dinars, with a deficit of 13 trillion dinars. And saw the reduction of the share of the Kurdistan region from 17% to 12.67%. 
After receiving the budget law, the Finance Committee called on the political blocs, in early December, to send their comments on the draft law in a maximum of two days.
In this context, a parliamentary source familiar with the developments of the budget file, said that "the Finance Committee collected these proposals and observations and sent to the President of the House of Representatives, who in turn addressed the Prime Minister books asking him to include these proposals in the draft budget. The source, who spoke to (term) preferring anonymity, that "the blocs submitted 35 proposals to the Finance Committee, which sent in turn to the Speaker of the House of Representatives," 
explains the source informed the most prominent observations that the blocks included in the draft budget, Demands the allocation of funds for the reconstruction of liberated cities and the return of displaced persons. 
The coalition of forces threatened last month to boycott parliament sessions because the allocation of displaced people and compensation to areas affected by military operations was not included in the budget.
In addition, the deputies of the oil provinces, a letter to the Presidency of Parliament demanding the government to comply with petrodollar allocations. While the Kurdish blocs demanded the retention of 17% as a share of the region. 
The source added that "oil-producing provinces have expressed their opposition to the allocation of the government 5% of oil revenues as allocations for the petrodollar, and demanded that it be $ 5, as provided by the law of provincial councils." 
The parliamentary source said, "There are objections made by the Kurdish forces on reducing the budget of the Kurdistan region to 12.67%." 
The source pointed out that "the Prime Minister informed the parliament in an informal way not able to make these amendments," and expected the presentation of the federal budget law for the first reading at the earliest meeting of the parliament.
According to the rules of procedure of the parliament in articles 22 (i) and (f), "The House of Representatives has an annual session with two legislative chapters of eight months, the first of which begins on March 1 and ends on June 30 of each year, the second of which begins on September 1 and ends on December 31" . "The legislative term, in which the general budget of the state is presented, shall not be terminated until it has been approved." 
Rahim al-Darraji, a member of the Finance Committee, said that his committee "sent the budget law accompanied by more than 34 comments to the speaker of parliament, which we asked to return to the government to include these amendments in the project." Al-Daraji said in an interview with "Al-Mada" yesterday that "the most important amendments relate to the petrodollar, the budget of the region, the reconstruction of cities and displaced persons, the deduction of salaries and international monetary loans." The member of the Finance Committee that "

[mr.unlikely]

Great these guys are complaining about some ministers actually working to complete the budget while they are on vacation. They dragged their feet until the end of the legislative session then ran away. Total Maliki tactic. When they realized some ministers stayed and worked, they get mad. Will somebody throw a shoe at those camel asses?

[jcfrag]

Agreed! I think it should just be passed as it is just to brow beat the lazy vacationers.....     

[yota691]

Deputy reveals the reasons for the late adoption of the budget 2018

 

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The Iraqi parliament member Nawal Jumaa, on Saturday, revealed that the confusion and political satisfaction and the search for electoral gains behind the delay in approving the budget of 2018.

"The failure to approve the country's financial budget for 2018 until this moment came because of mistakes and confusion in its paragraphs and formulation, as well as the search for satisfaction of political thoughts on the one hand and the search for electoral gains on the other."

She added that "this delay will enter the country in the form of large problems, the top of which is the problem of the operational budget on which ministries and directorates rely on the payment of their employees' salaries, as well as the problem of the Ministry of Health and its need to spend money in the purchase of medicines and other medical supplies.

"One of the most important mistakes in the budget is the absence of paragraphs to move the start of the rescue of the displaced and the poor, who reached more than 40% of the population, the transfer of part of the waste in areas where there is only corruption, as well as the importance of crude oil pricing inside and float prices Products refer electricity to self-financing. "

 

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28-12-2017 12:13 PM

Budget 2018 too !!

 

 

 

The Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the return of the draft federal budget law for the year 2018 to Parliament without any government amendment, despite the objections made by the political blocs . 

MP Amin Baker, member of the parliamentary financial committee, told the newspaper 'life', that 'the draft federal budget in which many points of disagreement, especially between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region, and the rest of the blocks objections to other important paragraphs, so the parliament decided to return the project to the government .

 He added that 'deliberately intended to send during the parliamentary holiday indicates that it does not want to approve, so do not expect to modify '.

 

A member of the parliamentary finance committee that 'observations on the budget included a request from the government to find a strategic alternative to diversify the sources of economy and activate local production and add funds to employ the unemployed '.

 

 

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Zaidi: a parliamentary consensus on the stabilization of 12% share of the province in the budget of 2018

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The parliamentary legal committee confirmed on Friday not to refer to the ratio of 17% of the region in the budget of 2018, noting the presence of a parliamentary tendency to stabilize the proportion of 12% in the budget.

"The House of Representatives waiting for the return of the budget from the government after the completion of the Finance Committee members' proposals and return them to the government for the purpose of amendment."

He added that "through the views of the members and the Finance Committee there is support and a significant parliamentary direction to pass the budget by 12% for the region and install for the coming years or reduce if the data to the Ministry of Planning according to population ratios."

It is clear that "the political blocs combined not to return to the ratio of 17% of Kurdistan," noting that "the proportion of 17 at the time put the political consensus as one year, but the negotiations and concocted kept the night of the past years"

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The Finance Committee reveals the latest developments related to the 2018 budget

31-12-2017 01:13 PM

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Revealed the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, the latest developments concerning the general budget for the year 2018, and how to adopt them under the dome of Parliament. 

A member of the Committee Rahim Darraji said in a press statement, that 'the presidency of Parliament did not authorize the parliamentary finance to discuss the government on the budget of 2018, but authorized to gather objections of the political blocs on them.' 

He added Daraji, 'the committee collected the objections of all political blocs, and handed them to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, and then sent by Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri to the government,' asserting that 'no response by the government has not responded so far'.

[ChuckFinley]

Thanks Yoda, nice to see you getting an early start to the day.

[pokerplayer]

5 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said:

Thanks Yoda, nice to see you getting an early start to the day.

 

Morning Chuck. The best to you today. Wishing you a fantastic New Years. Pray you will have fun but safe. !!

 

    Cheers pp

[jeepguy]

good  day to all ,  and to the  Canadians who seem to be having all the fun weather  this  season !   

[pokerplayer]

LOL, its cold here to Jeep. -35 C , -42C with wind chill. So you were saying what ??  LOL

 

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20 minutes ago, jeepguy said:

good  day to all ,  and to the  Canadians who seem to be having all the fun weather  this  season !   

 

Well not all Canadians  

morning jeep, a Happy New Year my friend 

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Deputy: Budget deficit of 2018 is 13 trillion dinars

 

Editor Hossam Al - Khafaji - Sunday 31 December

 

 

Alsumaria News / Baghdad  revealed a member of the Parliamentary Services Committee MP Huda Sajjad, Sunday that the deficit of the 2018 budget of 13 trillion dinars, while confirming "keenness" the government and the parliament to grant petrodollar to the oil - producing provinces.  The carpet said in an interview for Alsumaria News, " Iraq's revenues within the budget of 2018 is 90 trillion dinars and expenditures amounted to 103 trillion dinars," indicating that "there is a budget deficit of 13 trillion dinars."   She called on the government to "find solutions to fill this deficit either through borrowing from banks or international organizations such as the World Bank or other organizations."  "The maturity of the petro-dollar as the House of Representatives and the government are keen to grant these amounts as rights to the oil-producing provinces," adding that "the House of Representatives has included the petro-dollar within the budget of 2017, and therefore in light of this crisis and economic challenges, the government is now able to fill the need For the southern and oil-producing provinces. "  The budget of 2018, which was read the first reading in parliament has set the proportion of the region by 12.67%, while indicated that the average price per barrel of $ 43.4 per barrel. And returned the Parliament on 20 December the federal budget for the year 2018 for the purpose of making amendments to some reservations by some political blocs.

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A financial expert: That's why the government will not borrow the 2018 budget

 

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BAGHDAD - A financial expert said on Thursday that the government does not need foreign borrowing to fill the budget deficit for next year in the event of continued high global oil prices, indicating that the government estimates of the price of a barrel of oil is low, which contributes to reduce the fiscal deficit gap.

Bassem Antoine said that "the government estimated the price of a barrel of oil at about $ 42, less than the world price of about $ 7, with export of 3 million and 750 thousand barrels per day."

 He added that "the government estimated deficit in the budget next year about 20 trillion dinars, but the International Monetary Fund will force it to reduce the figure to about 15 trillion, and if the continuation of the rise in world oil prices, Iraq will end the fiscal deficit by oil sales."

Antoine said that "non-external borrowing of the government and increase the amounts of domestic production and reduce administrative and financial corruption will contribute to the end of external borrowing fully and contribute to the construction of a national economy is able to compete."

 

http://sumer.news/ar/news/24702/خبير-مالي-لهذا-السبب-لن-تقترض-الحكومة-بموازنة-2018

[jeepguy]

1 hour ago, yota691 said:

called on the government to "find solutions to fill this deficit either through borrowing from banks or international organizations such as the World Bank or other organizations." 

this is partially  why they are in the deep deficit now !    borrow  borrow  borrow  ,  get off the  we are too poor  crap  ,  put  them  big  girl and boy pants on  and work  the  dinar to your favor instead ... 

 

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financial expert said on Thursday that the government does not need foreign borrowing to fill the budget deficit for next year in the event of continued high global oil prices

 WOW  that was a close one !  

[yota691]

The budget bill 2018 tops the agenda of the parliament session tomorrow

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The House of Representatives completes tomorrow the first reading of the budget law for the year 2018

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Baghdad / Al-Ghad Press: 
The House of Representatives will complete, in its first session of its second legislative term, on Wednesday, the first reading of the budget bill for the year 2018. 
The media service of the Council in a statement received "Al-Ghad Press" a copy of it, "The House of Representatives will be held on Tomorrow Wednesday, the first session of the second legislative term for the first reading of the draft law of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2018.
She added that "the Council will complete the vote on the proposal of the law of the Nursing Association, in addition to the resignation of a member of the House of Representatives and to take the constitutional oath of the alternative." 
She pointed out that "will read the first reading of the proposed law of the first amendment to the law of the anti-terrorism No. 31 for the year 2016 and the first reading of the draft law of the first amendment to the law of agricultural quarantine No. 76 of 2012." 
"It is scheduled to report and discuss the proposed law of the House of Representatives and its composition, as well as to report and discuss the draft law amending the Penal Code contained in the Penal Code No. 111 of 1969 Amended and other special laws No. 6 of 2008. 
She added that "the session will witness the report and discussion of the draft law on the rights of Turkmen, in addition to the report and discuss the proposal of the law of Samarra, the capital of Islamic culture."

[King Bean]

Pretty aggressive agenda for a bunch of camel-milkers. The Kurds will be no-show because of the proposed 12%, Jabouri will go on and on about all the GOI accomplished in 2017, they will take credit for defeat of ISIS, then some hot air about planned focus on rebuilding war torn areas blah blah blah, they will argue about short skirt requirements in the 'nursing' law, then retire to the lounge area for some much needed bloody marys while postpone further action until Saturday. Elections are coming in May. Only thing they will pass between now and then is budget.....and gas.

 

                                                               

[fnbplanet]

On the bright side (for THEM), unrest (or a civil war) in Iran will most certainly inflate the prices of oil for some time.  Didn't they budget the price of oil at around $44 per barrel?  It's well (pardon the pun) over $60 now.  IMO, they aren't really going to have a $13B deficit at year's end, even if they don't RV/RI.  PLUS, aren't they expecting some repatriated stolen and/or frozen funds?  They got this.

[Butifldrm]

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Agenda of Session No. 1 Wednesday, 3 January 2018

 January 2, 2018 30 Views

First: Reading verses from the Holy Quran.

Second: First reading of the draft law of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq for fiscal year 2018. (Finance Committee) (48 articles).

Third: Complete the vote on the proposed law of the Nursing Syndicate. (Civil Society Organizations Committee, Legal Committee, Finance Committee, Health and Environment Committee), (remaining 36 articles).

Fourth: The resignation of a member of the House of Representatives and the swearing-in of the alternative.

Fifth: First reading of the proposed law of the first amendment to the law of the Anti-Terrorism Authority No. (31) for the year 2016. (Security and Defense Committee). (4 article).

Sixth: First reading of the draft law for the first amendment of the law of quarantine No. 76 of 2012. (Committee on Agriculture, Water and Marshlands, Committee on Health and Environment). (6 articles).

Seventh: Report and discuss the proposed law of the House of Representatives and its composition. (Legal Committee, Finance Committee). (53 articles).

Eighth: Report and discussion of the draft law amending the fines law mentioned in Penal Code No. (111) of 1969 amending and other special laws No. (6) of 2008. (Legal Committee) (Article 2).

Ninth: Report and discussion of draft law on the rights of Turkmen. (Commission on Human Rights) (18 articles).

Tenth: Report and discuss the proposal of the law of Samarra, the capital of Islamic culture. (Committee on Tourism and Antiquities, Legal Committee). (4 article). 
The session begins at 11 am.

 

http://ar.parliament.iq/2018/01/02/29748/

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15 minutes ago, Butifldrm said:

Sessions Board StickyTable  

Agenda of Session No. 1 Wednesday, 3 January 2018

 January 2, 2018 30 Views

First: Reading verses from the Holy Quran.

Second: First reading of the draft law of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq for fiscal year 2018. (Finance Committee) (48 articles).

Third: Complete the vote on the proposed law of the Nursing Syndicate. (Civil Society Organizations Committee, Legal Committee, Finance Committee, Health and Environment Committee), (remaining 36 articles).

Fourth: The resignation of a member of the House of Representatives and the swearing-in of the alternative.

Fifth: First reading of the proposed law of the first amendment to the law of the Anti-Terrorism Authority No. (31) for the year 2016. (Security and Defense Committee). (4 article).

Sixth: First reading of the draft law for the first amendment of the law of quarantine No. 76 of 2012. (Committee on Agriculture, Water and Marshlands, Committee on Health and Environment). (6 articles).

Seventh: Report and discuss the proposed law of the House of Representatives and its composition. (Legal Committee, Finance Committee). (53 articles).

Eighth: Report and discussion of the draft law amending the fines law mentioned in Penal Code No. (111) of 1969 amending and other special laws No. (6) of 2008. (Legal Committee) (Article 2).

Ninth: Report and discussion of draft law on the rights of Turkmen. (Commission on Human Rights) (18 articles).

Tenth: Report and discuss the proposal of the law of Samarra, the capital of Islamic culture. (Committee on Tourism and Antiquities, Legal Committee). (4 article). 
The session begins at 11 am.

 

http://ar.parliament.iq/2018/01/02/29748/

 

thanks Butifldrm!

[yota691]

Parliament to resume its meetings Wednesday with the first reading of the budget bill

 

 Since 2018-01-03 at 00:54 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

The House of Representatives resumed its third parliamentary session for the fourth legislative year of the second legislative term, Wednesday, by reading a number of bills including the draft federal budget law.

"The agenda for the Wednesday session includes the first reading of the draft federal budget bill for the year 2018 and the completion of the vote on the proposal of the law of the Nursing Association, the resignation of the member of the House of Representatives and the constitutional oath of the alternative, in addition to the first reading of the proposal The First Amendment Law of the Anti-Terrorism Act No. 31 of 2016 and the first reading of the draft law on quarantine No. 76 of 2012 ".

He added that "the agenda includes discussing the proposed law of the House of Representatives and its composition and draft law amending the penalties contained in the Penal Code No. 11 of 1969 amending, and discuss the law of Turkmen rights and the proposal of the law of Samarra, the capital of Islamic culture."

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