Congress on Iraq's budget 2012: the cover is "over the public money" and "political blackmail"?
Posted 17/02/2012 04:17 AM
BAGHDAD - Ahmed al-Lami
and is expected to be delayed approving the budget of Finance of Iraq for the current year, although he was late by about two months, some MPs justify this delay, expected to be extended for a longer period, because there are "many problems must be resolved so as not to repeat mistakes of previous budgets."
When will the Iraqi parliament from approving the budget of Finance?
Delay for the preparation of an arbitrator to balance financial, sees other representatives as an attempt to use the approved budget in order to ensure the interests and concessions, obtained some of the powers of government embarrassing that it has provided the budget behind the original, as well as gaps in the many in the law.
and raises the head of the "fact-finding committee representative "for the settlement of the accounts of the Development Fund for Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi, the issue of Article 25 of the draft budget law, saying it was" an instrument of forgiveness for bypassing the public money. "
said Article authorizes the Finance Minister to "turn off advances from 01/01/2004 until 12/31/2011 , spent part of them without the allocation of budgets ", ie it provides an opportunity to whitewash" all abusers, those who spend public money without appropriations in the budget. "
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