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Parliamentary dispute over the share of the Kurdistan region of budget 2013
12/06/2012 12:00 am
National confirms constitutionality reduced and the Kurds reject prejudice and demanding upwards
Baghdad - Shaima Rashid
while rejecting the Kurdistan Alliance calls launched by some lawmakers to reduce the province's budget, the National Alliance stressed the constitutionality of these calls that guarantee equality and justice distribution of imports.
Wade legal expert these calls and the position of the National Alliance, viewing it as "illegal and unconstitutional".
has promised an MP for the National Alliance Hanan al claims some provinces deputies to reconsider the province's budget on the grounds they remedy their provinces and justice to the region.
Fatlawi said in a statement to "Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network," that Congress claims some provinces yesterday to the House of Representatives and the Finance Committee to reconsider the rate of 17 percent taken by the province of budget Federal is legitimate to achieve justice with other provinces. It
added that "the proportion of the province was in the time of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, confirming the absence of legal or constitutional amid the absence of official statistics or data, criticizing it of having become this ratio birthright in every province Year repeat the same situation.
MP pointed out that the claims came to adopt the same standard for the allocation of a percentage of the budget of the provinces with the Kurdistan region was the statistics from the Ministry of Planning or the Ministry of Commerce as a certified, indicating that these statistics that take provinces, why Kurdistan takes on in accordance with the agreements.
confirmed the need for a fair sharing in the distribution of the budget between the province and the provinces, as it should not take the Kurdistan region of more than entitlement to it under the statistics, the Kurdistan region worth 12.9 percent of the budget, not 17 percent.
Fatlawi explained that "these calls does not belong to the deputies of the National Alliance, but are calls by some MPs who objected to the provinces injustice in their provinces compared to what is allocated the province, calling not to vote or pass this year's budget unless re-examined in the proportion of the province.
The MP for the Kurdistan Alliance Najiba Najib has rejected calls launched by some deputies in order to reduce the budget of the Kurdistan region, indicating that these calls is based on the "legal basis" and not on any other agreements.
criticized Najib told the "Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network" invitations Vice coalition of state law to reduce the budget of the province. "she said, adding that" there are constitutional article provides grants each province's share of revenue to help its officials to do Bamorha physical, administrative and according to population, "pointing out that the census is the prerogative of the federal authorities and the population is necessary.
MP pointed out that "after more than nine years after the fall of the former regime have not been census , a move that became reflects civilization, law-abiding in every state, and the lack of a proper census is an imbalance in the state administration and in project management and distribution of financial disciplines. "
center of the photo, said legal expert Tareq Harb said invitations reducing the proportion of the province of the annual budget with a legal basis and realistic.
said the war in a press statement received "morning," a copy of it: that "calls from some lawmakers to reduce the prescribed percentage in the annual budget for the year 2013 and due to the region to less than 17 percent have a legal basis and realistic. "
He said the war that "determining this ratio began in the 2008 budget, where he received consensus between the Kurdistan Alliance determine this ratio in the budget law for approval Some blocks requested the National Alliance on the Law of the provinces and asked for some Sunni Arab bloc in parliament to approve the amnesty law, as it got a bargain between the three parties to vote on these three laws which the budget by 17 of the province The provinces and amnesty in one basket. "
and continued: "It has since been repeated 17 percent of the budget to the Kurdistan region is not commensurate with the population of the province, which shows the number of provincial seats in Parliament so that the Sulaymaniyah 15 seats and Erbil 17 seats and Dohuk 10 seats of the parliament's 325 seats seat and thus shows that the ratio of the number of seats allocated to the province of the number of seats in parliament, or the proportion of the population of the province of Iraq's population and a simple calculation shows that the percentage of the population of the province of not more than 13 percent of Iraq's population, and therefore the percentage that must be the province of the annual budget of not more than 13 percent of the budget according to the number of population and this determined the numbers and language figures do not err on about what is being said has nothing to do with the Kurdish populated present in other provinces because these provinces to take their share of population, whether they are Arabs or Kurds. "
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