The Federal Court Obliges The Council Of Ministers And The Minister Of Finance To Submit The Final Accounts

The Federal Court Obliges The Council Of Ministers And The Minister Of Finance To Submit The Final Accounts

Sunday 12, November 2023 | Political Number of readings: 221  Baghdad / NINA / The Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in the country) accepted a lawsuit submitted by the Secretary of the Communist Party in Iraq, in which he demanded that the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance submit the final accounts for the implementation of the general budget.

Lawyer Zuhair Diaa El-Din, who was assigned, along with lawyer Salam Zuhair Diaa El-Din, by the Secretary of the Communist Party, Raed Fahmy, to carry out the duties of the lawsuit, in a statement today, “The Federal Court issued a decision obligating both the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Finance to submit the final accounts.”

The Federal Court issued its decision, in Case No. 190/Federal/2023, based on the implementation of the text of Article (62/First) of the Iraqi Constitution, which stipulates that “the Council of Ministers shall submit the general budget law and the final account to the House of Representatives for approval, in accordance with the provisions of Article (34). ) of the Financial Management Law No. (6) of 2019.

According to Diaa El-Din, this decision constitutes “a major achievement, given that the state’s final accounts reflect the processes of applying the general budget in accordance with the legal regulations, systems and financial instructions in force, to show the financial position of the state with its rights that must be collected, and the obligations that must be paid.”

This comes after the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance hesitated to submit the final accounts that were last submitted for the year 2018, according to what was stated in the statement, which indicated that the accounts that are submitted are Years behind its timing,

the lawyer for the case expressed his hope, after the issuance of the decision, that the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance would commit to completing and submitting the final accounts for the ending year with every budget that is referred to the House of Representatives for the purpose of approval, in implementation of the decision of the Federal Court, whose decisions are considered final and binding on all authorities based on the text Article (94) of the Constitution.

He also expressed his aspirations that the issuance of this decision would contribute in an effective way to preserving public money through monitoring disbursement operations, according to the statement.

On June 13, 2023, the House of Representatives voted on the country’s general financial budget for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025, after a difficult struggle that extended for months, and forced the holding of a series of parliamentary sessions.  https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1089489