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Parliamentary Finance: Discussion and approval of the 2015 budget early next year
Announced that the Parliamentary Finance Committee, said the government will send a draft budget law for fiscal 2015 to the House of Representatives in mid-next December, showed that while reading and approving the budget Sindzan early next year
According to parliamentary sources, the budget will come to the Council at a time when the House of Representatives enjoys significant legislative Bagazathm, and therefore will be approved at the beginning of next year after the subject of debate and amendments for the first reading and the second, in the meantime, said experts and financial domain, that the situation in Iraq and the current provided a positive opportunity to approving the budget.
In this context, explained the parliamentary finance committee member Mohammed Abdul Qader, the military and political variables that gripped Iraq recently, including the face Daash and the need to buy weapons to Iraq has left an impact on determining the value of the roof of the financial budget for 2015.
Said Mohammed, in a statement to the "New Morning" that he "asked the government to speed up the sending 2015 budget, and informed Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari during hosted by the Finance Committee that his ministry is working on the preparation of the budget and will be sending the middle of next month to the House of Representatives."
And it "is supposed to send the budget during the current month, the House of Representatives, but the changing situation of the country last sent, as well as leaving an impact on determining the financial value as well as the fiscal deficit, especially with the presence of money from the 2014 budget will be added to 2015".
He pointed out that "the government will send a draft budget law for fiscal 2014 financial and operational data on the final accounts of the form with the 2015 budget," adding that "the submission of the budget in this way was due to the country's fiscal deficit and the lack of time for approval."
Referred to the operational side of the budget in 2014 (Altgshelah budget) will be spent according to the needs of the country from the financial point of view, there will be considered by the priorities, namely the security situation by arming the security forces, and the file of the displaced and the service sectors and educational.
For its part, MP for the coalition of state law, high Nassif showed, that "the financial budget for 2015 will be approved at the beginning of next year, and not before, because of the legislative recess of the Council."
Nassif running a member of the Integrity Commission, in a statement to the "new morning and said," It, "according to government reports are expected to reach the budget to the House of Representatives at the beginning of this November month, with the extension of the legislative recess work until approval," adding that "the budget did not reach Council this month, and therefore the Council will take a legislative recess in the month of next December, and the budget will be approved at the beginning of next year. "
They noted that "the existence of an earlier opinion to the House of Representatives, that the Council takes legislative recess in the month of November, and resume Daovernm in the next month in order to recognize the budget before next year, but did not accept this argument," pointing out that "the budget in 2015 will witness a political discrepant as well as challenges between the political blocs, because of the issue of the displaced and armament claims Reconstruction and the provinces. "
While, acknowledged member of the parliamentary legal committee MP Saman Fattah, that in the event of reaching the budget after November this month, the House of Representatives is not obliged to read it during the legislative recess.
Said Fattah said in a statement to the "New Morning" that he "remained on the first chapter Legislative age two weeks, any day 1 of the next month and begin the legislative recess of the Council," adding that "if the Iraqi budget did not reach either 2014 or 2015, before the next month, the by rules of procedure, we will have a holiday for a month after the holiday has been reduced from two months to one month, and if reached could not be discussed, but after the holiday. "
To that saw financial expert Majid picture, that the political problems between the blocks will reduce the impact on the adoption of the financial budget, and the country's need for them, especially the security file to address the "Daash."
A picture in a statement to the "New Morning" that "send the budget to the House of Representatives before the New Year is a positive thing, despite the circumstances experienced by Iraq," noting that "the recent agreement reached between the center and the Kurdistan region and the provinces also attended by the Minister of Oil, will to remove a lot of obstacles particular to increase the financial resources of Iraq, and approving the budget. "
He explained that "the budget for next year will focus on necessary to eliminate Daash expenses and the same time to solve the financial problems," adding that "approval is up to the political consensus that the positive thing that politicians now want to remove differences toward the budget, to speed up the approval by."
The oil minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, had announced that the agreement signed with the Kurdistan Region recently, will double its oil production in Iraq.
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