Baghdad calls for regional autonomy budget
On: Fri 1/15/2012 6:49
Baghdad / term
indicated the province of Baghdad, Saturday, concern over the delay in adoption of the country's general budget for the year 2012 due to political differences, the budget required to isolate the regional development of the general budget to maintain the continuity of projects.
The first deputy governor of Baghdad, Mohammed al-Shammari told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), that "the delay in approving the federal budget will have an impact on the sustainability of projects, either ongoing projects or projects that began to work out soon."
said Shammari that "the province of Baghdad demanded removal balancing regional development for the federal budget so as not to affect the continuity of projects, especially since the provinces in dire need to implement projects to improve the reality service and physical and we need to speed always should be a budget supportive of the projects. "
"It is not wise to repeat the errors must be on the government and the House of Representatives a program and plan is through them ensure no delays in approving the budget on schedule. "
Baghdad strongly and need the funds to build its economy damaged by years of wars, sanctions and violence. The housing projects at the top of the demands of citizens. He was the Baghdad Provincial Council in recent times, a number of investment projects, including project Bassamah residential one million housing units and a project in Abu Ghraib, including the 50 thousand housing units and the project 8 thousand housing units in Taji, and others.
The lack of public services at the top of citizens' complaints that could not Iraqi governments Successive provided despite the passage of more than eight years to bring down the former Iraqi regime in 2003.
and criticized many of the provinces not to apply the Federal Government for the Law of the regions and governorates not organized province No. 21 of 2008 for the granting of additional powers to the provinces in terms of administrative and financial.
and on the back of dilemmas decided to resort to some provinces to begin the formation stages of the regions as an alternative to exercise its powers in accordance with the Constitution cited, according to officials in the provinces of Diyala and Anbar and Salah al-Din.
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