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This is Parliament Procedures:

Article: 31

The Council exercises the following legislative powers:

First: the issuance of its bylaw.

Second: Legislating the law that deals with the replacement of its members in the event of resignation, dismissal, death, or loss of membership for any other reason.

Third: Examining the draft laws proposed by the Presidency Council or the Council of Ministers, including the two draft laws of the state’s general budget and the supplementary budget, and approving the final account. Ministers increase the total amounts of expenditures in accordance with Article 62 of the Constitution.

Fourth: Approving an independent and adequate budget for the judiciary.

Fifth: Approving the budget of the Council of Representatives and its committees.

Sixth: Considering draft laws proposed by members of the council and its committees.

Seventh: In the event that the Presidency Council does not approve of the laws, they are returned to the House of Representatives to review the disputed aspects and vote on them by majority, and they are sent again to the Presidency Council for approval, and in the event that the Presidency Commission does not approve the laws again, within ten days from the date of their arrival to it. It is returned to the House of Representatives, which may approve it by a three-fifths majority of its members, without objection, and is deemed ratified.

 

This is the Iraqi Constitution:

Article: 62

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The Council of Ministers shall submit the draft general budget bill and the closing account to the Council of Representatives for approval.
Second
The Council of Representatives may conduct transfers between the sections and chapters of the general budget and reduce the total of its sums, and it may suggest to the Council of Ministers that they increase the total expenses, when necessary.

 

 

 

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This is Parliamentary Procedure:

Article: 22

First: The House of Representatives has an annual session with two legislative seasons of eight months, the first of which begins on March 1 and ends on June 30 of each year, and the second begins on September 1 and ends on December 31.

Second: The legislative term in which the state’s general budget is presented does not end without approval.

Third: Council sessions are held at least two days a week, and the Presidency Commission may extend or specify them as necessary.

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24 minutes ago, Artitech said:

I thought they were reading the budget for second time today being 1-16-21! Am I wrong or wAs this scuttle-butt! Thanks in advance for any help!🤠

Not too sure about that Art. I do know they are wasting their time if they are updating their Constitution. These nutty little things, along with laws are only as good as the frail paper they are written on. Easily manipulated, only as good as the people and courts enforcing them, and easily tossed in the trash as needed.

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Parliamentary Education calls for the inclusion of 1,000 schools in the 2021 budget
  
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Parliamentary Education Committee, headed by Qusay Mohsen Al-Yasiri, demanded, on Saturday, Parliamentary Finance to allocate funds in the federal budget for the fiscal year (2021) to build less than (1000) schools.

The committee indicated in a statement that the Euphrates News received a copy of it, that "the parliamentary finance had previously allocated a trillion Iraqi dinars value for building schools in the federal budget for the fiscal year 2019, because school buildings are of great importance in providing the appropriate environment to improve the educational impact."
She added, "With the annual increase in the number of pupils and students and their need to increase corresponding to the number of school buildings, which has become one of the challenges facing the educational reality, since the Ministry of Education is in dire need of building at least (10) thousand schools, knowing that the government has a national project to build schools. In all governorates, being the owner of the main project in education.
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The House of Representatives announces the end of the discussion of the federal budget law for 2021
  
(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The House of Representatives announced in its thirty-fifth session that was resumed headed by Hassan Al-Kaabi, First Deputy Speaker, today, Saturday, the end of discussion of the budget bill for 2021.

"At the beginning of the session, I recalled Al-Kaabi on the Turkmen martyr's day, calling on the council to read Surat Al-Fatihah on the souls of the martyrs of Iraq," the magazine's media department statement said.
Regarding the discussion of the budget law, the representatives' interventions demanded that revenues be distributed fairly among the governorates, taking into account the disbursement of petrodollars and the benefits of border crossings, the allocation and disbursement of financial dues to mobilize the Ministry of Defense, doubling the sums allocated to the Reconstruction Fund for Liberated Areas, and imposing taxes on imported materials that have an equivalent of the local product in support of it, as well. About supporting the Ministry of Education through increasing financial allocations and paying attention to scientific research centers, wondering about the reasons for the decrease in support for the ration card items.
The deputies ’remarks promised the government’s direction through the draft budget law, in contradiction with what it proposed in the white paper aimed at reform, calling for the government to adopt a deliberate vision to reduce the level of unemployment among the youth segments and to demand support for sports reality in Iraq by increasing the financial allocation for it, in addition to activating the Council The Federal Service to take its role in creating and deleting job grades professionally and proposing to install night guards on the 6000 employees of the Ministry of Interior or Oil concerned with the protection of oil wells, and to demand the government, for reasons of neglecting it, to set up a mechanism to pay the debts accumulated on the Kurdistan Regional Government from selling oil.
During the session chaired by Bashir Al-Haddad, Deputy Chairman of the House, the opinions of the deputies focused on giving importance to investment projects and lagging, calling for the re-operation of the stalled factories in the governorates and providing support to the development ministries in the country in relation to the financial inflation presented to the security ministries and demanding the cancellation of Resolution No. 94 of 2010 related By launching the promotion of employees who hold diplomas and graduates of institutes.
In its response to the interventions, the Finance Committee indicated that it had received 162 requests from MPs related to the draft General Budget Law 2021, pointing to setting a schedule to respond to the observations received, noting that determining the price of a barrel of oil and currency exchange in the budget law is the prerogative of the government, indicating that the implementation of the law The budget requires reducing the volume of total spending and activating the private sector, both industrial and agricultural, stressing that it takes into consideration the proposals put forward regarding the budget law.
For his part, Al-Haddad called for efforts by the parliamentary blocs and committees in cooperation with the Finance Committee to pass the general federal budget law in the service of citizens in general and in the interest of all governorates without exception, noting the need for the government to follow a policy of reducing expenditures and consolidating revenues to reduce the financial deficit in the budget, especially with The instability of the economic situation in Iraq, as well as coordination and cooperation to solve the outstanding problems between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
In another context, the MPs' discussions of public affairs focused on demanding the payment of farmers ’dues, looking at the dues of goodwill contracts, and investigating the reasons for transferring one billion dinars from the budget of Nineveh Governorate to Salah al-Din Governorate, in addition to investigating the security breaches that occurred in some areas of Diyala Governorate.
Then it was decided to adjourn the session.

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Deputy attacks the budget and calls for its return to the government
  
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} MP Muhammad Iqbal attacked, on Saturday, the federal budget for 2021, calling for it to be returned to the government.

Iqbal stated on his personal page that "the budget is based on mood, its pillars are interests, and the ceiling is marginalization. There is no good in it, and it is returned to the government to be reconsidered first than to pass it."

 

The House of Representatives announced the end of the discussion of the 2021 budget law, and in its response to the interventions, the Finance Committee indicated that it had received 162 requests from the representatives related to the draft budget law.

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Parliamentary Finance: To vote on the budget next week .. This is the fate of the salary deduction
  
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Diyar Barwari, revealed, today, Saturday, that his committee is making great efforts in the matter of adjusting the budget and has continuous meetings.

Berwari said in a press interview: "Today we envision the last session to receive the remarks and proposals of the deputies, and maybe this week we will have the final formulations of the law and maybe the vote on the law will take place next week."
He pointed out that "there is a tendency to pressure spending in the budget and we want to coordinate with the government so as not to affect the ruling expenditures."
He continued: "Unfortunately, the budget includes functional deductions amounting to 5 trillion dinars, and the government tried to enter it into the budget as an achievement, and these deductions are rejected by parliamentarians and cannot take place because of the citizen's financial situation with raising the dollar exchange rate and withholding salaries and the House of Representatives against that."
He explained that "the agreement between Baghdad and the region is in the budget and stipulated in articles 10 and 11 of the draft law in which the Kurdistan region pledges to provide 250 thousand barrels of oil to the Federal Oil Marketing Company {SOMO} and sovereign expenditures as imports from the ports to Baghdad, and this agreement took place between the two parties, but political parties. He is opposed to it in general, especially with the approaching elections, and to exploit this politically. "
He indicated that "justice in general in the distribution of wealth in the budget does not exist, and there is a disparity in the budgets between the provinces, including Basra, such as the delay in the payment of petrodollar dues and 5% of the outlets' fees, and this includes all the provinces and it is the duty of the provincial representatives in Parliament to defend their provinces."
A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee concluded: "The current payment and thought in the parliament and the deputies, passing the budget before the end of the current legislative term after extending it for a month and reducing the legislative holiday for the purpose of approving the budget."

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Parliament ends the budget debate and the debate is still open on the deductions

 
  Baghdad: Hazem Muhammad Habib
 
Yesterday, Saturday, the House of Representatives ended discussion of the budget bill for 2021, while the parliamentary committees, in coordination with the government, intend to reduce the numbers and compress expenditures in the draft law, while the debate continues regarding deductions in employee salaries and high expenditures. 
On the other hand, 57,000 families covered by social care are waiting for the approval of the budget to pay their overdue salaries for a full year, with new numbers included in social care and a full-time employee.
During the session chaired by Hassan Al-Kaabi, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, the deputies demanded, according to a statement, that revenues be distributed fairly among the governorates, taking into account the disbursement of petrodollars and the benefits of border crossings, the allocation and disbursement of financial dues to mobilize the Ministry of Defense, doubling the sums allocated to the reconstruction fund for liberated areas, and imposing taxes on imported materials It has an analogue of the local product in support of it, as well as supporting the Ministry of Education by increasing financial allocations and paying attention to scientific research centers, asking about the reasons for the decrease in support for the ration card items.
In its response to the interventions, the Finance Committee indicated that it had received 162 requests from MPs, related to the draft General Budget Law 2021, pointing to the setting of a schedule to respond to the observations received, noting that setting the price of a barrel of oil and currency exchange in the budget law are the government's prerogatives, indicating that the implementation of the law The budget requires reducing the volume of total spending and activating the private sector, both industrial and agricultural, confirming that the proposals put forward regarding the budget law will be taken into consideration.
Regarding the deductions, Majida Al-Tamimi, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, explained to “Conservative” that “the committee and parliament in general reject these large deductions from employees’ salaries, ”noting that“ deductions in the budget came under the title of the Income Tax Law. ”
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On Saturday, the Iraqi Council of Representatives announced the end of discussion of the draft fiscal budget law for 2021, while the Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed that it had received 162 requests about the project.

Today evening, the House of Representatives resumed its thirty-fifth session chaired by Hassan Al-Kaabi, First Deputy Speaker to discuss the budget bill for 2021, and the session witnessed the end of the discussion of the bill.

Representatives' interventions demanded that the revenues in the budget be distributed fairly among the governorates, taking into account the disbursement of petrodollar dues and the benefits of border crossings, the allocation and disbursement of financial dues to mobilize the Ministry of Defense, doubling the sums allocated to the Reconstruction Fund for Liberated Areas, imposing taxes on imported materials that have similar local product in support of it, as well as support The Ministry of Education by increasing financial allocations and paying attention to scientific research centers, wondering about the reasons for the decrease in support for the ration card items.

I promised the government's approach through the draft budget law, "contradicting what it proposed in the white paper aimed at reform, calling for the government to adopt a deliberate vision to reduce the level of unemployment among youth segments and to demand support for sports in Iraq by increasing the financial allocation for it, in addition to activating the service council." The Federal Reserve to take its role in professionally creating and deleting job grades and proposing to install night guards on the 6000 employees of the Ministry of Interior or Oil concerned with protecting oil wells, and to demand the government for reasons that it “neglected to set up a mechanism to pay the debts accumulated on the Kurdistan Regional Government from selling oil,” according to a report A journalist issued by the Media Department of the House of Representatives.

During the session chaired by Bashir Al-Haddad, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, the opinions of the deputies focused on giving importance to investment projects and lagging, calling for the re-operation of the stalled factories in the governorates and providing support to the development ministries in the country in relation to the financial inflation presented to the security ministries and calling for the cancellation of Resolution No. 94 of 2010 related to By launching the promotion of employees who hold diplomas and graduates of institutes.

For its part, the Finance Committee indicated that it had received 162 requests from MPs related to the draft General Budget Law 2021, pointing to setting a schedule to respond to the observations received, noting that determining the price of a barrel of oil and currency exchange in the budget law are the government's prerogatives.

The committee added that the implementation of the budget law requires reducing the volume of total spending and activating the private sector, both industrial and agricultural sectors, confirming that it takes into consideration the proposals put forward regarding the budget law.

Al-Haddad called for efforts by the parliamentary blocs and committees in cooperation with the Finance Committee to pass the Federal Budget Law in the service of citizens in general and in the interest of all governorates without exception, noting the need for the government to follow a policy of reducing expenditures and consolidating revenues to reduce the financial deficit in the budget, especially with the instability of the situation Economic development in Iraq, as well as coordination and cooperation to solve the outstanding problems between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

The parliament’s discussions on public affairs also focused on demanding the disbursement of farmers ’dues, looking at the dues of goodwill contracts, and investigating the reasons for the transfer of one billion dinars from the budget of Nineveh Governorate to Salah al-Din Governorate, in addition to investigating the security breaches that occurred in some areas of Diyala province, before it is decided Lift the session.

The draft fiscal budget law for 2021, which reached the Iraqi parliament, after a vote on it by the cabinet, was read under the dome of the parliament, in the midst of conflicting discussions and opinions from members of parliament on several paragraphs related to the law, and some of them called for returning the budget to The government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi, in order to make amendments to it, especially with regard to reducing spending, while other parties believe that returning the budget to the government will take a long time, and therefore the general situation in the country does not bear a delay more than what is happening.

The draft budget law included imposing taxes on the income of employees whose salaries exceed 500 thousand dinars, while the deduction rises to 40% for the salaries of the three presidencies and ministries, and thus the citizen will bear new burdens that may lead to an increase in the pace of anger in the Iraqi street, which basically will not bear More pressures, in light of high levels of poverty, unemployment, and deteriorating services.

The deductions included 40% of the salaries of the three presidencies and the Supreme Judicial Council and 30% of the salaries of ministers and MPs and those of their rank, in addition to a 10% deduction for everyone whose monthly income ranges between 500 thousand and one million dinars (but the first 500 thousand are not taxed) and imposed 20% on those who He receives a salary of between one million and a million and a half million Iraqi dinars and 30% for everything that exceeds 1.5 million dinars, and imposes a 10% flat tax on retirement and end-of-service benefits.

The public sector in Iraq includes about four million employees, in addition to three million retirees and one million people receiving social welfare salaries, and therefore these millions are waiting for the approval of the draft general budget, and with any delay beyond the limit, the street may raise against the government and influential parties in the country, and this What does not satisfy all the internal parties, but even the regional influential people in Iraq.

The Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives indicated a number of basic points in the draft general budget law for 2021, including the large deficit rate and deductions imposed on employees' salaries and the size of the financial allocations to the provinces, and stressed the importance of addressing the large deficit in the budget, and taking into account the situation of a pandemic Corona and not fully relying on current oil prices, as they are subject to change, as well as taking into account the proportions of financial allocations to the governorates, taking into account the degree of deprivation for each governorate.

 
 
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Parliament's proposal is "worrying" about the ration card
  
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} Representative Alia Nassif called on Sunday, the legislative authority and the ministers of trade and finance to cancel the ration card and distribute its price to the deserving citizens instead of going into the pockets of the corrupt.

Nassif said in a statement that Al Furat News received a copy of, that "it is unfortunate that the ration card has become a corruption project in recent years, and the citizen no longer benefits from its vocabulary, which has shrunk until it has disappeared, and whenever the voices demand to distribute its price to citizens rise, the corrupt intervenes to dilute the issue." And fight any attempts in this direction because they are beneficiaries of this project. " 

She explained that "throughout the past two parliamentary sessions, we carried out a media campaign that was a war against the corruption system that imports inferior and spoiled foodstuffs, and we published pictures of rotten rice and spoiled wheat that was coming on ships through corruption deals, and in the end we found that the best solution is to pull the rug." From under the theft of public money and canceling their corruption projects. " 

Nassif indicated that "it is better for the government, the ministers of trade and finance, and the House of Representatives to agree to cancel the ration card and replace it with an amount of 15 dollars a month for every deserving Iraqi individual, instead of going into the pockets of the corrupt or transporting the agent for the sake of poor and meager food."  

It is noteworthy that the economic blockade on Iraq that lasted 13 years - due to the invading of the former regime of Kuwait in 1990 - especially the food distribution system, the mechanisms that printed the Iraqi economy from the beginning of the nineties until now, and this system embodies what is known as the ration card.

The ration card system was adopted in Iraq shortly after the issuance of UN Security Council Resolution No. 661 issued on August 6, 1990, 90% of Iraqi families rely on this card completely, and the remaining 10% (those with high wages) depend on it in part.

The ration card bears the name of the family breadwinner, the name of the locality and the alley, the number of family members, the name of the distribution agent in general, and the agent for distributing flour in particular.

After 2003, the Ministry of Trade faced numerous accusations regarding its failure to secure the ration card items, despite its transfer to five items (flour, rice, oil, sugar, and children's candy).

The Ministry of Trade said recently that the government has allocated good sums of money within the 2021 budget to improve the ration card items.

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The Iraqi parliament ends discussion of the 2021 budget law ... and the members are directing demands to the government

The Iraqi parliament ends discussion of the 2021 budget law ... and the members are directing demands to the government
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Mubasher: The Iraqi Council of Representatives, in its thirty-fifth session that was resumed headed by Hassan Al-Kaabi, First Vice President of the Council, ended on Saturday the discussion of the draft budget law for 2021.

According to a statement issued by the Media Department of the House of Representatives, the deputies ’interventions demanded that revenues be distributed fairly among the governorates, taking into account the disbursement of petrodollar dues and the benefits of border crossings, the allocation and disbursement of financial dues to mobilize the Ministry of Defense, doubling the sums allocated to the reconstruction fund for liberated areas, and imposing taxes on imported materials that Have an instance of the local product in support of him.

The MPs ’demands also included supporting the Ministry of Education by increasing financial allocations and paying attention to scientific research centers, asking about the reasons for the decrease in support for the ration card items .

The deputies ’remarks promised the government’s direction through the draft budget law, in contradiction to what it proposed in the white paper aimed at reform, calling for the government to adopt a deliberate vision to reduce the level of unemployment amongst the youth segments and to demand support for the sporting reality in Iraq by increasing the financial allocation for it.

The deputies made demands for the government to activate the Federal Service Council; To take his role in professionally creating and deleting job grades, and proposing to install night guards on the 6,000 employees of the Ministry of Interior or Oil concerned with protecting oil wells, and asking the government for reasons of its neglect to set up a mechanism to pay off the debts accumulated on the Kurdistan Regional Government from selling oil .

During the session chaired by Bashir Al-Haddad, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, the opinions of the deputies focused on giving importance to investment projects and lagging, calling for re-operating the stalled factories in the governorates and providing support to the development ministries in the country in relation to the financial inflation presented to the security ministries and calling for the cancellation of Resolution No. 94 of 2010 Relating to the launch of the promotion of diploma-holders and institute graduates .

In its response to the interventions, the Finance Committee indicated that it had received 162 requests from the deputies related to the draft General Budget Law 2021, pointing to the establishment of a schedule to respond to the observations received, noting that determining the price of a barrel of oil and the exchange of currency in the budget law are the prerogatives of the government.

 The Finance Committee indicated that the implementation of the budget law requires reducing the volume of total spending and activating the private sector, both industrial and agricultural sectors, stressing that it takes into consideration the proposals put forward regarding the budget law .

For his part, Al-Haddad called for efforts by the parliamentary blocs and committees, in cooperation with the Finance Committee, to pass the general federal budget law; A service for citizens in general and for the benefit of all governorates without exception.

Al-Haddad noted the need for the government to follow a policy of reducing expenditures and boosting revenues to reduce the fiscal deficit in the budget, especially with the instability of the economic situation in Iraq, as well as coordination and cooperation to solve the outstanding problems between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government .

In another context, the MPs ’discussions on public affairs focused on demanding the payment of farmers’ dues, looking at the dues of good signs contracts and investigating the reasons for transferring one billion dinars from the budget of Nineveh Governorate to Salah al-Din Governorate, in addition to investigating the security breaches that occurred in some areas of Diyala Governorate.

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The Parliamentary Economic Committee revealed, on Saturday, the intention of the Al-Kazemi government to pay off international loans that are advised by the Kurdistan region in a non-lawful manner from the 2021 budget of $ 27 billion.

A member of the Economic Committee, Hamid al-Mousawi, told / al-Malouma / that "the law restricted external borrowing to the central government and did not give any legal right to the provinces and regions to borrow abroad without the approval of the central government."

He added that "the region has debts from foreign loans amounting to 27 billion dollars, all without the knowledge of the central government."

Al-Mousawi explained that "in the event that he voted on that paragraph and the government was unable to pay it as a result of a financial crisis, he would push Kurdistan to claim it in international courts."

He continued, "This paragraph will be followed by everyone and it is impossible to pass it at the expense of the rest of the Iraqi provinces."

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Member of Parliament, Nada Shaker Jawdat, confirmed, on Sunday, that Parliament will host the governors of Basra, Najaf and Anbar in order to review their most important demands, indicating that Parliament will continue to host the rest of the governors who feel unfair towards their budget allocations.
"Parliament will today host the governors of Basra, Najaf and Anbar, according to their request to listen to their demands regarding their rights in the current year’s budget," Jawdat said in a statement to Al-Maouma.
She added, "Parliament will continue to hold meetings with the rest of the governors and a number of officials who have a relationship with the municipality in order for them to form a complete picture of your discussions for the second reading of the budget bill for the current year."
She indicated that "Parliament is asking to reduce the size of the budget in exchange for large demands to increase the share of the southern and western governorates, and this matter calls for an in-depth study and identification of priorities in line with the size of the budget sums."
He explained, "The draft budget will not return to the government, but a mechanism and an open channel will be put in place between the government and parliament." Ended / 25 AD

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Parliamentary Finance: No Budget Passing Without "Political Consensus"

 
  Baghdad: Shaima Rashid and Muhannad Abdul-Wahhab 
 
Although the House of Representatives has finished discussing the budget bill for the current year, its passage requires political consensus, according to the Parliamentary Finance Committee, which confirmed that appointments and the creation of new jobs are exclusively the prerogatives of the government.
A member of the Finance Committee, Ahmed Hajj Rashid, told Al-Sabah: “All applications for appointments to the commission, lecturers of the Ministry of Education, and 315 decision contracts were transferred to the government,” indicating that “approving appointments and creating job grades within the 2021 budget is one of the government's competencies.”
He added that "the draft budget law in terms of form is the best budgets presented by the Ministry of Finance because it contains all the reports of the important institutions concerned with the administration of the Iraqi state, such as foreign trade reports, the oil budget and the Ministry of Finance data." He continued, "The draft budget law in terms of content is the worst, considering that the deficit in it reaches 71 trillion dinars, and the amounts allocated for expenditures are 164 trillion dinars."
For his part, the committee’s reporter, Ahmed Al-Saffar, explained to “Conscious”, “The Finance Committee will define the proposals that it deems necessary to change and how to distribute public expenditures within the spending units, and some allocations will be reduced in items and increased in other items as needed.”
Stressing that "the passage of the budget bill in the House of Representatives needs cooperation and political consensus."
In addition, Committee member Jamal Cougar said in a statement to "Al-Sabah" that "Parliamentary finance continues to study and discuss the draft budget and thus it is difficult to pass it during the current week." He added, "Parliamentary Finance has formed five sub-committees to meet with ministries, bodies and institutions to discuss the sections of spending and details of the budget."
On the Kurdistan’s share, Cougar confirmed to Al-Sabah that “the region’s share of the 2021 budget has been discussed, but it has not been decided yet.”
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Parliamentary Finance reveals to / Nina / when the budget bill is ready for a vote / expanded

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Baghdad / NINA / The Parliamentary Finance Committee announced: "The draft general budget bill for the current year will be ready to vote on it at the end of next week."

Committee member Jamal Cougar denied in a special statement to the Iraqi National News Agency / NINA /, the news that indicated the existence of a parliamentary decision to return the budget to the government to amend it again, pointing out: “The Finance Committee has finished discussing all paragraphs of the budget law, and is now working on legal formulas to amend Its paragraphs will also be discussed again after the end of the legal drafting. "

Cougar explained: The committee will hold several meetings in the coming days with officials in the ministries, to discuss the ministries ’budgets, noting:“ Parliament members have submitted nearly 300 notes and proposals related to the budget, and the Parliamentary Committee is studying all of them. ”

He explained: "The budget law will be ready for voting at the end of next week, after the completion of the legal notes and drafting, and the transfers therein." / End 9
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By a televised statement ... Ahmed Al-Saffar: The citizens ’income decreased by 23% by raising the exchange rate to the dollar

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BAGHDAD / Nina / Rapporteur of the Committee stressed the parliamentary Finance Ahmed Al - Saffar said the amendments will include most of 2021. budget items

, said al - Saffar in a televised statement followed the agency / Nina /: The administrative and legal irregularities in the budget of 2021 due to the delay and sent a large proportion of the deficit.

Al-Saffar asserted: The citizens ’income decreased by 23% by raising the exchange rate of the dollar. / End 9
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Shafaq News / The Iraqi Council of Representatives (Parliament), in its thirty-fifth session that was resumed headed by Hassan Al-Kaabi, First Deputy Speaker on Saturday, ended the discussion of the budget bill for 2021.

 

A statement issued by the Council, received by Shafaq News Agency, stated that the deputies demanded, during their interventions, to distribute revenues fairly between governorates, taking into account the disbursement of petrodollar dues and the benefits of border crossings, allocating and disbursing financial dues to mobilize the Ministry of Defense and doubling the sums allocated to the Reconstruction Fund for Liberated Areas and imposing taxes on materials Imported products that have similar local products in support of it, as well as supporting the Ministry of Education by increasing financial allocations and paying attention to scientific research centers, asking about the reasons for the decrease in support for the ration card items.

 

The deputies ’remarks promised the government’s direction through the draft budget law, in contradiction with what it proposed in the white paper aimed at reform, calling for the government to adopt a deliberate vision to reduce the level of unemployment among the youth segments and to demand support for sports reality in Iraq by increasing the financial allocation for it, in addition to activating the Council The Federal Service to take its role in creating and deleting job grades professionally and proposing to install night guards on the 6000 employees of the Ministry of Interior or Oil concerned with the protection of oil wells, and to demand the government, for reasons of neglecting it, to set up a mechanism to pay the debts accumulated on the Kurdistan Regional Government from selling oil.

 

During the session chaired by Bashir Al-Haddad, Deputy Chairman of the House, the opinions of the deputies focused on giving importance to investment projects and lagging, calling for the re-operation of the stalled factories in the governorates and providing support to the development ministries in the country in relation to the financial inflation presented to the security ministries and demanding the cancellation of Resolution No. 94 of 2010 related to launching Promoting employees who hold a diploma and graduates of institutes, according to the statement.

 

In its response to the interventions, the Finance Committee indicated that it had received 162 requests from MPs related to the draft General Budget Law 2021, pointing to the setting of a schedule to respond to the observations received, noting that determining the price of a barrel of oil and the exchange of currency in the budget law is the prerogative of the government, indicating that the implementation of the law The budget requires reducing the volume of total spending and activating the private sector, both industrial and agricultural, stressing that it takes into consideration the proposals put forward regarding the budget law.

 

For his part, Bashir Al-Haddad called for efforts by the parliamentary blocs and committees in cooperation with the Finance Committee to pass the general federal budget law in the service of citizens in general and in the interest of all governorates without exception, noting the need for the government to follow a policy of reducing expenditures and consolidating revenues to reduce the financial deficit in the budget in particular With the instability of the economic situation in Iraq, as well as coordination and cooperation to solve the outstanding problems between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

 

In another context, the discussions of the ladies and gentlemen of representatives in public affairs focused on demanding the payment of farmers ’dues, looking at the dues of contracts for good deeds, and investigating the reasons for transferring the sum of one billion dinars from the budget of Nineveh Governorate to Salah al-Din Governorate, in addition to investigating the security breaches that occurred in some areas of the governorate Diyala.

 

Then it was decided to adjourn the session indefinitely.

 

Parliament is scheduled to begin voting on budget items in the coming sessions.

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Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Jamal Cougar, revealed, on Monday, a tendency to reduce the deficit in the federal budget to between 35-40 trillion dinars from the total deficit, ruling out the possibility of reducing the exchange rate of the dollar against the dinar in the budget.
 
And he said Cougar In an interview with Alsumaria News, "The exchange rate for the dollar against the local currency within the federal budget will remain the same, given that any retreat from this price means raising the budget deficit number to astronomical numbers, including at least an increase of 22 trillion dinars in addition to all the budget numbers built on The basis of the currently registered number, and any change in it means radically changing the entire budget. "
 

He added Cougar "There is a tendency for the Committee and the House of Representatives to reduce the size of the total deficit in the budget and thus reduce budget spending, as we went to choose the 2019 budget with an approximate increase of up to 7% on it and the expected figure for the total budget size will be between 120-130 trillion dinars, and the maximum limit is 135 trillion. Dinars, which means a reduction of between 35-40 trillion dinars from the total deficit. "
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The legal expert, Ali Al-Tamimi, explained the extent of Parliament's authority to change the dollar exchange rate in the budget, pointing out that Parliament is facing a historical position to prevent the increasing difficulty of living for the people.

Al-Tamimi said to "the information", that "Article 62 of the constitution permits parliament, upon the arrival of the draft budget, to transfer between chapters and chapters as well as reduce the total amounts, and he may, when necessary, return them to the Council of Ministers and suggest an increase in total expenditures, and Article 57 of the Constitution requires Legislating the budget law even if the legislative term ends, and this means that Parliament cannot reduce the exchange rate of the dollar that was set in the budget. Rather, it can propose and return the budget to the Council of Ministers because of the extreme necessity for that, as it violates Article 30 of the Constitution that requires the government to provide Decent living for people ”.

He added, "Parliament is facing a historic position ... that it represents the people in ... standing by the people and preventing the increase in the difficulty of living."

And that "Parliament and if the budget law is legislated, it is subject to appeal before the Federal Supreme Court according to Article 93, as this contravenes Article 30 of the Constitution and Articles 23 and 26 of the Charter of the International Covenant." 25 n

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The legal expert, Ali Al-Tamimi, explained the extent of Parliament's authority to change the dollar exchange rate in the budget, pointing out that Parliament is facing a historical position to prevent the increasing difficulty of living for the people.

Al-Tamimi said to "the information", that "Article 62 of the constitution permits parliament, upon the arrival of the draft budget, to transfer between chapters and chapters as well as reduce the total amounts, and he may, when necessary, return them to the Council of Ministers and suggest an increase in total expenditures, and Article 57 of the Constitution requires Legislating the budget law even if the legislative term ends, and this means that Parliament cannot reduce the exchange rate of the dollar that was set in the budget. Rather, it can propose and return the budget to the Council of Ministers because of the extreme necessity for that, as it violates Article 30 of the Constitution that requires the government to provide Decent living for people ”.

He added, "Parliament is facing a historic position ... that it represents the people in ... standing by the people and preventing the increase in the difficulty of living."

And that "Parliament and if the budget law is legislated, it is subject to appeal before the Federal Supreme Court according to Article 93, as this contravenes Article 30 of the Constitution and Articles 23 and 26 of the Charter of the International Covenant." 25 n

Iraq Constitution states the following:
Article 30 First
The State shall guarantee to the individual and the family - especially children and women – social and health security, the basic requirements for living a free and decent life, and shall secure for them suitable income and appropriate housing.
Second
The State shall guarantee social and health security to Iraqis in cases of old age, sickness, employment disability, homelessness, orphanhood, or unemployment, shall work to protect them from ignorance, fear and poverty, and shall provide them housing and special programs of care and rehabilitation, and this shall be regulated by law.

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Iraq Constitution states the following:
Article 30 First
The State shall guarantee to the individual and the family - especially children and women – social and health security, the basic requirements for living a free and decent life, and shall secure for them suitable income and appropriate housing.
Second
The State shall guarantee social and health security to Iraqis in cases of old age, sickness, employment disability, homelessness, orphanhood, or unemployment, shall work to protect them from ignorance, fear and poverty, and shall provide them housing and special programs of care and rehabilitation, and this shall be regulated by law.


Article 57
The Council of Representatives shall have one annual term, with two legislative sessions, lasting eight months. The bylaws shall define the method to convene the sessions. The session in which the general budget is being presented shall not end until approval of the budget.
 

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Article 57
The Council of Representatives shall have one annual term, with two legislative sessions, lasting eight months. The bylaws shall define the method to convene the sessions. The session in which the general budget is being presented shall not end until approval of the budget.
 

One question, how did they get to the 35th session, without passing the budget in the 34th session, cause articles 57 of the constitution clearly states the session shall not end until approval of the budget.

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