Thursday, 19 December / 2 January 2012 00:27
BAGHDAD - Muntazer Nasser
Rejected the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the proposal submitted by the province of Baghdad, on balance the development of the regions separated from the general budget, which delayed approval constantly, because of his violation of the constitutional and legal.
As she considered that this comes under pressure from the provinces to strengthen the powers, the province of Baghdad said that this would solve the problem of delay in the budget, because of political bargaining exercised by the House of Representatives against each other.
While invited members of the Parliamentary Committee to strengthen the powers of the conservatives, who considered that the balance of regional development is misleading, not based on real numbers and criteria, stressing the need to re-consider.
In an interview with the "world," said the deputy governor of Baghdad, Dr. Mohammed al-Shammari on Wednesday, that "the proposal submitted by the province of Baghdad, is part of a series of proposals to resolve outstanding problems and strengthen the administrative and financial powers, and the proposal is based on the separation of the general budget and balance the development of the regions of the governorates. in order to address the question of delays in approving the budget, which affects negatively on the project in general. "
Shammari said "You know that the issue of time is important, especially for projects related to housing and services and pave the streets and all other facilities," noting that "it is essential that the federal government to benefit from past experiences, and there is a cure for that."
He pointed out that "it made us look for solutions to accelerate the adoption of the budget, do not subject them to political differences that hinder continued approval," pointing out that "the best interest of the country requires to find a way to address this problem, given that the budget is the basis for the sustainability of life."
The deputy governor of Baghdad, "We have proposed to the Council of Ministers, the Council of Representatives and to the Finance Committee in particular, is expected to study," and expressed his hope that "looking both houses it seriously and seek to find real solutions to ensure the movement of local governments towards the completion of projects, in order to reach the solutions, even if not accepted it must provide alternative proposals, "asserting that" the proposal has the support of most of the provinces, and we have already we have coordinated with them to reach a solution to that dilemma. "
And on finding some kind of pressure on political parties, to approve the proposal in the event of his refusal, he went Shammari that "the phenomenon of claim provinces by some of the provinces, was the main reason behind the increased demand to increase the effectiveness of local governments and the application of administrative decentralization, as who does the role."
For his part, MP for the rule of law, and a member of the Finance Committee representative Haytham Jubouri, said that "all proposals and views respectful to us, and we look at it seriously, but there are things that are checked and the other is not so, and that the claim to separate balancing regional development on the budget General illegal and contrary to the Constitution, considering that the budget law is the law of a unified and a single article of the law, how the legal rule that the one and indivisible. "
And on the pressure exerted by the provinces concerning the promotion of its powers, Jubouri said in his interview for "the world" yesterday, "We do not need to pressure, but we have demanded an increase of these powers in other forums and communities are many, but it is not our mandate, but the validity of the Committee of the regions and governorates." .
In turn, said a member of the parliamentary Finance Committee Magda Abdel-Latif, "The House of Representatives is not absolutely responsible for the delay budget, but is the responsibility of the government and the Ministry of Finance specifically."
And criticized Abdel-Latif, in a meeting with "the world" yesterday, "the distribution of the budget on the basis of percentage of population of each province, because it is based on statistical ration card in the Ministry of Commerce, and we know they are not accurate, many of the individuals in whom is out of Iraq, some of the deceased, has enter the names are not true, and so on, we have reservations on such things, and prepare statistical misleading. "
The member of the Finance Committee "and that finding a project petrodollars is the heresy of law, supposed to be going all oil imports, or returns the border crossing points, and property of tourists and visitors to the state treasury and distributed fairly, not on the basis of oil or gas, which would add one dollar for each barrel of oil for of the province exported, or one dollar for 150 cubic meters of gas, "indicating that" the claims of the provinces on compensation for physical damage and environmental exposed by the presence of fields on their territory, such as claims of Basra to compensate damage the environment, should get in another way, such as the establishment private hospital cases resulting from the inhalation of such vapors and gases resulting from combustion processes, and so, otherwise what is the guilt of some provinces that do not have oil and gas, such as Karbala and Babel? ".
Called Abdul Latif to "strengthen the powers of the governors and dispose of much of the burden of excess and small Ketblait streets or repair electrical wiring, or the like, and focus on strategic projects and large so that they can be completed easily," calling on the government to "the need to move towards investment and privatization as the solution only for each of the grave economic problems in the country, such as the absorption of unemployment. "
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