Members of the Kurdish opposition in the House of Representatives support the purchase of Iraqi armored vehicles
Date: Thursday, 03.01.2012 8:57
Erbil / range
announced the members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives of the opposition leaders of Kurdistan (Change and the Union and the Community Islamists), on Wednesday, expressed their support for a car tow members of the Council because it is a natural right of the Congress, considering the issue be raised by some parties to political speculation.
According to the MP for the Islamic Group Light Dragae to AKnews that he "did not vote to approve the purchase of armored cars of the deputies did not support the move with the fact that the security situation in Baghdad, the capital is stable which it is based on the House of Representatives claimants to provide those cars to them," pointing out that "the topic to take more of its size has become a place of political speculation by some parties. "
He Dargaia that "the deputies of the lists belonging to the references of Shia that were considered buying armored vehicles to members of the Iraqi parliament, corruption and crime voted to pass the resolution."
For his part, said MP for the Islamic Union Osama's nice to be "those cars if they had bought for the members of the House of Representatives will not be comfortable having them, but will be returned to the Iraqi parliament immediately after the session of the MP to be given to new MPs in the new session of the Council."
The beautiful that "the provision of those cars will be able to MPs to visit all the places and institutions to see the conditions of citizens especially in Baghdad, which are still situations where security is stable, "noting that" the provision of those cars will be limited to members of the House of Representatives and the Directors-General of the Council and the budget allocated to those cars will not have a significant impact on the general budget of the country. "
For its part, showed an MP for the change movement Kohistan Alhmunda, in stating it as "that did not have security, how can they defend the interests of the people at a time characterized by the security situation in Baghdad and the southern provinces the situation of deteriorating security too."
and was a member of Iraqi parliament from the Islamic Group Light Dargaia has said in previous statements that "the many members of the House of Representatives sought in the past for the purchase of armored cars to them, but they were not able to gather the votes necessary to pass that privilege to them, "he said, adding that" the decision has been passed through the Committee on House of Representatives in the form of a draft resolution as referred to the Finance Committee in Council to turn finally to a provision in the law of the Iraqi budget for the current year, which won the approval of the Council of Representatives. "
and raised the allocation of Iraqi Council of Representatives of $ 50 million for the purchase of armored vehicles for his deputies on the day he was killed and dozens, a wave of criticism in the Iraqi street and by the religious leaders and political .
The House voted an absolute majority on Thursday to buy 350 vehicles armored to the MPs of the 325 $ 60 billion dinars (about fifty million dollars), without any objections or discussions.
and tried most of the parliamentary blocs to distance themselves from this vote and blame the other blocks after the emergence of criticism .
came the vote on the resolution on the same day that it approved the federal budget $ 100 billion, which killed and wounded dozens of people in a series of bombings targeting different regions in Iraq.
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