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Parliament discusses the budget 2013 in the absence of final accounts
Baghdad / Iyad al-Tamimi
The eve of the House of Representatives to discuss the budget for next year, threatened the Kurdistan Alliance not to vote in favor of the budget is not installed dues Kurdistan region and included the salaries of the Peshmerga, which the government refuses to merge with the Ministry of Defence, while stressing Congress that the final accounts not up to parliament to very moment, which could reduces the chances of recognized budget on the agenda of today's meeting.
The MP said the Kurdistan Alliance Hassan Jihad, in an interview with The term "territorial Government dues budget 2013 must be clear in the sections of the budget, and not We alliance Kordestani in the House of Representatives will vote on the budget."
Jihad said that "the differences between the political blocs on the big budget and require time to be resolved, likely to be delayed in the House of Representatives approved (the budget).
A member of the parliamentary Finance Committee Haitham al-Jubouri that the final accounts for the past years can not be up to the House of Representatives in the near future, but he pointed out that the accounts for the year 2011 could reach within the next few days.
Jubouri attributed the reasons for non-arrival in an interview with the (long) to loans and advances, calling on the government to "extinguish all loans and advances granted to citizens so you can send accounts without any belongings."
Jubouri ruled out the implementation of the demands of the Kurdistan Alliance in regards to the integration of Peshmerga Ministry of Defense, and said failure to do so.
And oil revenues, which will hopefully be distributed to the people, revealed Jubouri about the existence of an agreement between the parliamentary Finance Committee and Board of Supreme Audit to establish a fund that supports the sons of the people are poor or without work, likely to start work on it if approved budget 2013 of without clarifying the mechanisms that will depend on the distribution of funds.
For his part, MP for the Iraqi List, Hamid al-Mutlaq said that "the final accounts for the year did not arrive by the ministries to the House of Representatives until this moment is reason not to recognize the budget 2013. Added Mutlaq in a statement reported by the agency (Euphrates News) announced yesterday that" it is necessary to up these accounts until the adoption of the general budget is below can not be it, "and wished Mutlaq" that there will be no coverage at all accounts in order to be approved as soon as possible. "and demanded" that there will be transparency by specialists in exchange budget, to know the Iraqi citizen Where to go and disposal of these resources. "Mutlaq predicted that" there will be different views and dialogues and permanent conflicts of the political blocs until proven to have important things. "
"If they reach the final accounts to the Parliament there will be no contract or missteps in the adoption of the general budget of the country as it relates to all Iraqis," stressing that "all the political blocs will do what it can to accomplish as soon as possible service to the citizen."
The head of the Finance Committee leader of the Dawa Party, Haider al-Abadi revealed to the extent that lawmakers are seeking to disrupt the budget in order to enjoy their holiday legislative, confirming its arrival by the government last week, revealing that 95 trillion is the operating budget, while the value of investment 48 trillion, explaining, that more than 20 trillion of the investment budget will go to the oil sector, and specifically to the third round of licenses, and 7 trillion to the Ministry of Electricity, and the remainder will be to the development of regions and provinces both by the percentage allocated to him.
It is noteworthy that budgets Federal public takes a long time each year until it is approved by the House of Representatives, which is causing disabling most of the projects, underlining specialists that gives an excuse first companies implementing projects in the disruption or lag, which reflected negatively on the services.
The House of Representatives held its regular meeting today to vote and read a number of draft laws. A statement from the Department of Media House received the long version of it, that "the agenda of the meeting tomorrow includes voting on the draft Agreement Act economic cooperation and technical cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Republic of China (PRC), and voting in principle a draft law lease agricultural land, and voting in terms of principle to the draft law the Fifth Amendment to the law of the State Consultative Council No. 65 of 1979, and vote on the proposed law to prevent Iraqi compulsion to change their nationality. " "It also includes the agenda the first reading of a bill the federal budget for fiscal year 2013, and the second reading of a bill accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, and the second reading of a bill accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection for the year 1991, and an invitation Actions to discuss trade and finance ministers and Planning on the ration card. "
The House of Representatives has held its regular meeting last Thursday during which he discussed the policy of the Central Bank and end the first and second readings of six laws, and raising its Monday.
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