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MP: POLITICAL DIFFERENCES BEHIND OBSTRUCTION OF OIL AND GAS LAW LEGISLATION
Information/Baghdad.A member of the Oil and Gas Committee, Bassem Nghimish, said on Monday that there are problems and political differences between Baghdad and Erbil over the oil and gas law, pointing out that political differences hinder the legislation of the oil and gas law.
Nghimesh said in an interview with Al-Maalouma that “the law is waiting for the understandings of Baghdad and Erbil to legislate the oil and gas law under the dome of the House of Representatives.”He added, “The passage of the oil and gas law in the House of Representatives needs political consensus, which hinders the vote on it until the moment.”
He explained that “the law was carried over many times during previous parliamentary sessions and was not included in the current parliamentary laws and legislation.”Ngueimish pointed out that “the oil and gas law is still a matter of controversy and disagreement between the political parties.”
(However, we can see from the February 21, Federal Supreme Court ruling [see article above] that the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government must hand over “all oil and non-oil revenues” to Baghdad. This is the beginning of the end of the controversy over the oil revenues and how the will be handles and the Oil and Gas Law controversy. Kurdistan wants to keep what oil revenues it wants as long as they fund the budget, they think the rest of the revenue is their, but the courts now say differently, and this ruling is according to the Constitutional mandates. Afterall isn’t there supposed to be National Unity between all parts of Iraq for one, free nation state of Iraq? Kurdistan needs to get rid of this idea of independence.)
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