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Araji: 2015 budget will be about 108 trillion dinars and Snrzlea to parliament before the legislative recess
Long-Presse / Baghdad
Expect Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji, on Thursday, sending the budget year 2015 to Parliament before entering into the legislative recess, and pointed out that the total amount of the budget is 108 trillion dinars and a deficit of 41 trillion dinars, while likely to increase oil production and export in the absence of higher prices.
They said in a statement received by the (long-Presse), a copy of "The government is serious about sending the budget year 2015, to the House of Representatives within the time ceilings," noting that "the Council of Ministers will be held today an extraordinary session in order to approve the budget and send it to the House of Representatives to stop the legislative recess."
Araji said that "the total amount of the budget in 2015 is 108 trillion dinars, based on a price of $ 70 per barrel of oil export by 2.75 million barrels per day, and a deficit of 41 trillion dinars," pointing to "the exclusion of all luxury spending and social benefits."
He favored the Deputy Prime Minister "increase the production and export of oil to reduce the difference between the two prices and increased revenue in the absence of an increase in oil prices."
A spokesman for the Information Office of the Prime Minister, on Wednesday revealed (November 26, 2014) for the determination of the Council of Ministers to discuss the budget Thursday hearing on "exceptional", and had been expecting an economic advisor to the prime minister, not the budget barrier volume exceeded percent billion dollars, urged the member Finance Committee of Parliament on Wednesday, the government to expedite the dispatch of next year's budget in 2015 before the first legislative term holiday.
The Parliamentary Finance Committee predicted in, (22 October 2014), to reduce the state budget by 59 trillion Iraqi dinars, and called on the government to austerity and reduce expenditures is necessary, while an economist suggested reducing the upper layers of the salaries of the state, and stimulate the private sector to be able to find opportunities new jobs to absorb the unemployed rather than the full dependence on the state in this area.
While economists are expected to reduce the number of grades, demanding the need to find an alternative to absorb the unemployed by providing new job opportunities through the private sector.
The Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, revealed in (the twentieth of October the past), during a press conference following a meeting with religious Shiite, Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf, and attended, (long-Presse), to discuss the Council of Ministers on the balance three times, and that the Council will prepare a budget in which a military spending as a fait accompli, noting that the budget in 2015, will be based on the 2014 current budget, due to the presence of the same problems, of oil from Kirkuk and stopped completely, as well as lower world prices, and expectations about to fall over, for this, the Council Ministers decided to austerity.
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