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Political blocs fail again in the adoption of the budget and defer the vote until tomorrow
20.2.2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah failed parliamentary blocs yesterday to reach a compromise formula on the federal budget for the current year, despite intensive meetings held by the leaders and members of the blocks and ended in failure and the agreement only to postpone voting upon to tomorrow, amid a pessimistic of the possibility of approval. A member of the Finance Committee MP Faleh applicable in an interview with the "long" yesterday that "demand the Kurdistan Alliance from the viewpoint of the National Alliance will affect the budget by adding the amount of four trillion dinars, which will increase the ceiling," pointing out that these procedures will emerge budget for the powers of the House of Representatives. " and increased sari that "the House of Representatives before the two options first vote on the federal budget for 2013, which would make it vulnerable to challenge in federal court by the Council of Ministers or returned to the Council of Ministers in order to be adjusted according to what you want the political blocs." and called sari is a member of the mass of the National Alliance political blocs to cooperation and understanding among them to accelerate the adoption of the federal budget without adding money, pointing out that the solutions lie in the addition of items do not affect the content of the budget. " and the controversial points that hinder voting on the adoption of the federal budget, explained sari that "the Kurdistan Alliance demanded a share of 17% from the federal budget to include, including salaries of the Peshmerga, as well as reimbursement of oil companies, while demanding the National Alliance distribution budget to the provinces according to the percentage of population. " and noted that "the National Alliance decided at its last meeting to vote on the current budget without adding any amount on them, pointing out that more than half of the members of the Iraqi List, with this trend. " For his part, MP for the State of Law bloc Abdul Salam al-Maliki that "the political blocs unable to reach an agreement on passing the budget law, blaming Osama Nujaifi and Finance Committee responsible for delay in approving the budget. said Maliki told the "long" yesterday that the Speaker of the House and the Finance Committee Go budget to within the parliament to be a common view of all in the amendment or addendum. was the head of the State of Law coalition parliamentary Khalid al-Attiyah held a meeting yesterday with representatives for blocs of the National Alliance and the Kurdistan, the absence of the Iraqi bloc to discuss an agreement on the budget bill financial for the current year 2013. conducted the presidency of the parliament of its president Osama Najafi and Nabay Qusay al-Suhail and Aref Tayfur meeting microcosm to discuss points of contention in the federal budget law for the current year 2013. stressed Nujaifi said in a statement issued him after the meeting and received a "long" a copy of the importance of adoption of the budget because of their prejudice in the lives of citizens and accelerate end finalized her, pointing out that the meeting demanded to continue the discussion and to intensify negotiations to prevent delay adoption of the federal budget. confirmed decision Parliament Mohammed al-Khalidi that the political blocs until this moment did not reach for the vote on the budget on Thursday, saying in a statement to the "long" yesterday that the Presidency of the parliament formed a sub-committee comprising two deputies from each block to discuss with the Finance Committee to end political differences. and Council of Ministers approved, in the fifth of November 2012, the budget of the year 2013 $ 138 trillion Iraqi dinars, while Parliament announced, in the 26 December 2012, re-draft budget to the government for amendments. valued Iraq's budget for 2013 to 138 trillion Iraqi dinars on the basis of rate calculation oil at $ 90 per barrel, and an export rate of two million and 900 thousand barrels per day. term
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