The government announces the arrival of the budget for next year to the House of Representatives

[6ly410]

 

Committee: There are no solutions other than passing the dollar exchange rate mentioned in the budget

Posted 13 seconds ago

https://iraqakhbar.com/2830676t

News source / Al-Zawra Newspaper

News source / Al-Zawra Newspaper

 

Baghdad / Al-Zawra:
The Parliamentary Economic Committee announced yesterday, Tuesday, the parliament’s position on the dollar exchange rate in the budget, while indicating that the government has no other solutions.
A member of the committee, Ali Al-Lami, said in a press statement: "The government has no other solution than passing the dollar exchange rate mentioned in the budget," indicating that "there is almost an agreement between the political blocs to pass the same exchange rate."
He added that "changing the exchange rate will affect the citizen in the rise in the prices of imported goods, especially since Iraq has no local product and most of its goods are imported," stressing that "the government does not have other solutions in order not to cut the salaries of employees."
And a member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, Majida Al-Tamimi, announced, on Friday, that her committee seeks to reduce the effects of changing the dollar exchange rate on the "vulnerable class."
And the central bank set a new exchange rate for the national currency, to raise the dollar to 1450 dinars, compared to 1190 dinars before the decision

[6ly410]

Cabinet: The budget has been signed and will be sent to Parliament tomorrow

 

Monday, December 28, 2020 19:32

https://akhbaar.org/home/2020/12/278660.html

 

 

Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Culture Hassan Nazim

Baghdad (People) - Cabinet spokesman Hassan Nazim revealed, on Monday, the date for sending the 2021 budget to Parliament.  

 

Nazem said during his hosting of the "neutral" program, presented by colleague "Saadoun Mohsen Damad," and "people" followed it (December 28, 2020), that "the budget has been signed and will be sent on Tuesday to the House of Representatives."  

 

He added that "the budget is based on a reform vision presented by the Ministry of Finance, and will work to revitalize the private sector."  

 

And he indicated that "there is a kind of protection for citizens with limited income in the ration card that has not been tampered with, and the government's decision is categorical about changing the dollar exchange rate, which is part of the vision of economic reform in Iraq."  

 

He continued that "the development of the budget was not unique to the government, and there was a discussion about it with the leaders of political blocs and they expressed their willingness to vote on it within the exchange rate of the dollar."  

 

He stressed that "what the current government did regarding the Faw port is to authorize the General Director of Ports to contract to start disbursement to complete the work."  

 

He continued, "The negotiations with the Kurdistan region have reached the approval of the delegation of the region on the borrowing law, and the discussion is still ongoing regarding the discrepancy of numbers about the region’s share."  

 

Nazem revealed, "a meeting held today for the Prime Minister with 8 ministers and security leaders, the Iraqi Media Network and the Media and Communications Commission with the parties related to the elections in the presence of the Chairperson of the Commission. There was talk about forming committees and coordinating work in preparation for the elections on June 6, 2021," indicating that "the government saved All the requirements needed to hold the elections. "  

 

He pointed out that "the meeting talked about securing the lives of citizens during the elections, as well as choosing places to store the invention boxes to prevent recurring incidents of fund burning."  

 

In another file, Nazem said that "the popular crowd is an official institution and everything that goes outside its law does not agree with it," noting that "the attack on the embassy is condemned by all factions, and there is a political horizon to solve the issue."  

 

Concerning the files of the Ministry of Culture, Nazem pointed out that "the culture has been passed down by terrorists, corrupt and uneducated people, and it is a ministry that has been rash in its construction, and in the past months there has been a change in the leadership of the ministry due to corruption cases, and a number of them were issued judicial orders and some others were dismissed due to mismanagement.  

 

"The Tourism Authority is a losing self-financing company, and most of the Iraqi self-financing companies are losers, and they are full of corruption," Nazim said, indicating that "in this body there are corruption files that affected leaders in the authority from a general manager and above, and a number of them were exempted and dismissed and referred to the judiciary."  

 

He stressed that "the Tourism Authority and within the last two months paid salaries from its revenues after changing the administration in new ways, as for years the Ministry of Culture did not receive revenues from it, and now it gives us revenues of one billion or more."  

 

The minister went on to say, "We brought in a team from outside the ministry and they worked with the directors of the ministry to restructure it, and we are now in the process of implementation."  

 

Nazem detailed that by saying, "The structure included all departments of the ministry, after it had created unnecessary divisions and divisions, for compliments and for the sake of assignments, and some divisions and divisions had only one or two people, and at the time we needed to create new departments, we created two sections for cultural diversity," And another section for financial management in the event that the Ministry of Finance is unable to finance the ministry. "  

 

He continued, "There was a lack of confidence in the ministry’s dealings with international organizations about grants, as international organizations are subject to various suspicions and administrative visions. We cannot heal ourselves as quickly as international organizations help us.  

 

Speaking about the projects, Nazem said, “Several projects have been resumed, such as the Al-Nuri Mosque and the Taq Kasra maintenance project, which was restored a few years ago and fell in the rain, despite this because of the work.  

 

The Minister of Culture complained about "a deficiency in institutions that develop cultural diversity, as we have a Kurdish publishing house, and it is an existing department from the seventies, others do not."  

 

The minister revealed, "We have formed a committee to translate Turkmen literature, as translation between languages in Iraq is very limited," stressing "the responsibility of Arabs and Kurds to promote cultural and literary exchange."  

 

And he continued, "I spoke with Kurdish intellectuals and parliamentarians in response to the fact that the biggest loser is the Kurds themselves. There is a large Kurdish cultural window that has to look out from the window of Iraq to the Arabs, and there is no presence of the Kurds in the Arab literary results in Iraq, linguistic isolation that the Kurds live in a geographical area, and this cannot be done." It should overlook other cultures, such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish. "  

 

And he called for "reviving the Arab and Kurdish Cultural Forum, which was annually, and is hosted every year by an Iraqi governorate, in which memoranda of understanding and agreements are held."  

 

He added, "We have 41 cultural homes in the governorates, which are frequent and concentrated in some governorates without others, and we are in the process of reviewing the feasibility of these houses, as some of them do not practice any activity or are small rooms, so they will be reassessed, their feasibility study, and the budgets spent We are dealing with it as well.  

 

The minister stated that "the heritage strip in Baghdad, which extends over a kilometer on the banks of the Tigris, we are seeking to find an investor to rehabilitate the area that includes the souk, the shrines and mosques surrounding it, Al-Mutanabi Street, Beit Al-Wali and other places. We also seek to move towards international destinations to invest in these places." The Iraqi-Saudi Coordinating Council is to entrust the cultural tape in Baghdad to Saudi companies. "  

 

He concluded by saying that "those with degrees in the fields of tourism and antiquities demanding appointments will have future contracts in the 2021 budget

[6ly410]

 

`` Frightening and explosive. '' Disturbing parliamentary remarks on the 2021 budget - urgent

https://iraqakhbar.com/2830468

 

News source / Baghdad today

News source / Baghdad today

 Baghdad today - Diyala

A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, MP Abd al-Hadi al-Saadawi, said Tuesday (December 29, 2020) that the 2021 budget is not austerity and is the highest since 2003, describing it as explosive.

Al-Saadawi said in an interview with (Baghdad Today), "The government has pledged that the 2021 budget will be austere, but after seeing the figures included in the budget, it became clear that it is" explosive, which is the highest after 2003 ", according to what he said.

He continued, "We did not see in the budget items any pressure for expenditures, but the government went to raise the ceiling of the general budget, and this indicates that it has no plan to address the great economic crisis that Iraq is going through in the budget law."

He pointed out that "the 2021 budget included frightening numbers, and it is unable to find financing for expenditures, let alone the large debts of local and international banks."

The deputy continued by saying, "Iraq is facing a difficult financial crisis, and expenditures must be compressed," noting that "there are a lot of observations on the 2021 budget, including the lack of an investment plan to address the financial deficit and attention to the unemployment file in addition to the budget, I went to stop all projects." The new developments in the regions and investment and directed only to continuous projects.

"The government has allocated large funds to the Ministry of Electricity, which is unable to find solutions to the energy crisis, and it had to focus its efforts on collecting and organizing the provision of energy to citizens, as well as the industrial and agricultural sector, through which it can cover a large part of the market needs and provide greater opportunities for the unemployed," he said.

And (Baghdad Today), the 2021 draft budget, voted on by the Council of Ministers, which arrived in Parliament earlier today, was published.

The expenditures included in the general budget for 2021, allocating an amount of (164206006155), one hundred and sixty-four trillion two hundred and six billion and six million, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dinars.

The total deficit planned for the federal public budget for the fiscal year was (71046051671) one thousand dinars (seventy-one trillion and forty-six billion, fifty-one million, six hundred and seventy-one thousand dinars)

[Longtimelurker]

If confusion is their goal, its working.

[6ly410]

Al-Azzawi: Four factors will determine the timing of the vote on the 2021 budget

22:21 - 12/29/2020

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/12/29/512750/

 

Information / Baghdad

MP Abdel-Khaleq Al-Azzawi, on Tuesday, identified 4 factors that will determine the timing for voting on the 2021 budget.

Al-Azzawi said in an interview with "the information", that "the 2021 budget will be the most complex in Iraq after 2003, especially in light of the difficult conditions that the country is going through, including a worsening financial and economic crisis and the presence of very complex files, which calls for extensive discussions and a period of time not short in order to reach Solutions".

He added, "The budget is the largest in the history of Iraq, and what is required is that it be an austerity budget, meaning it must be reduced dramatically in addition to addressing the file of deductions in salaries because there is a parliamentary rejection of any deductions for simple employees, not to mention the exchange rate file for the dollar, pointing out that what I mentioned are all factors that determine the timing. Time limit to vote on the budget.

He pointed out that "talking about the possibility of resolving it in 20 or 30 days is very difficult and is not sufficient because it includes very complex files that will not pass easily in light of the disparity of opinions about it."

The House of Representatives announced today the arrival of the 2021 budget, and it is likely that its discussion will begin early next January. ”25 Ended

[DWS112]

38 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

The House of Representatives announced today the arrival of the 2021 budget, and it is likely that its discussion will begin early next January.

Ready...Set....                                    

[6ly410]

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A spokesperson for Iraq’s Council of Ministers has called the 2021 budget bill the beginning of “a comprehensive reform plan,” Iraqi state media has reported. 

“The 2021 budget bill is the start of a comprehensive reform plan,” Iraqi state media reported Hassan Nadhim as saying in the council’s weekly press conference on Tuesday, adding that the current cabinet “has dealt with security challenges with patience and wisdom.”

Iraq's Council of Ministers voted to approve the Federal Budget Bill for 2021 in a meeting led by Iraqi PM  Mustafa al-Kadhimi on December 21.

Deputy Speaker of the parliament Basheer Haddad said that the parliament will conduct their first reading for the bill at the “beginning of January,” state media reported on Tuesday.

The government announced in October a series of economic reforms titled “the White Paper,” including reforms in oil, electricity, agriculture, schools, and limiting waste and corruption- but it has yet to be implemented.

The spokesperson also discussed meetings with an Iranian delegation to Baghdad on Tuesday.

“The discussions with the Iranian delegation focused on security and economics,” Nadhim added.

Iran’s energy minister Reza Ardakanian arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday to meet with his Iraqi counterpart to discuss the reduction of natural gas exports, among other issues.

Iranian Energy minister Ardakanian promised PM Kadhimi that "Iran will urgently resume its gas export to Iraq,” the PM’s office announced in a tweet.  

Ardakanian told Iran's state-run IRNA that the Iraqi side had agreed to sending over part of the money they owe to Iran.

A spokesperson for Iraq's Ministry of Electricity warned on Sunday that central provinces face further electricity shortages as a result of Iran's export cuts.

“Iran will reduce its gas exports to three mcm as a result of the Iraqi side not paying the money they owe for buying gas,” Ahmed Moussa, told state media on Sunday.

[DWS112]

3 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

GOOOOO       beginning of January