Uncertainty Over The 2025 Budget.. Parliament: We Don't Know Anything About It Yet - Urgent, 25 OCT

 Uncertainty Over The 2025 Budget.. Parliament: We Don't Know Anything About It Yet - Urgent

Politics / Economy |Today  Baghdad Today - Baghdad   The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed, today, Thursday (October 24, 2024), that the House of Representatives does not know anything about the details of the 2025 budget schedules.

Committee member Jamal Kojer said in an interview with Baghdad Today, "The House of Representatives has not yet reviewed any of the details of the 2025 budget schedules, and we do not know the size of the budget, the percentage of the deficit in it, what projects it includes, and other financial issues."

Koger said, "We do not expect there to be a major or fundamental change in the 2025 budget schedules compared to the past two years, and we believe that the deficit will exist virtually or in reality, and this is what the budget schedules will determine when they reach us and we review them, as there is no official date for their arrival yet."

The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) that the Ministry of Finance is preparing the general budget tables for the year 2025, while pointing out the most important pillars that will be adopted in the budget for next year.

Saleh said in a statement carried by the official news agency, "Article 77/Second of the Federal General Budget Law No. 13 of 2023, which regulates the preparation of the three-year budget, stipulates that the government sends the budget tables for the years 2024 and 2025 to the House of Representatives for approval before the end of the previous fiscal year."

 He added, "The Ministry of Finance has announced that it is in the process of preparing the general budget schedules for the year 2025, in accordance with the constitutional mechanisms adopted by the aforementioned three-year budget law."

He pointed out that "based on the indicators of budget implementation over the first two years of Law No. 13 mentioned above, the financial authority has the necessary administrative and financial capabilities to submit the 2025 budget tables to take their legislative path through discussion and approval in the Council of Ministers and refer them to the House of Representatives before the end of this year."

Saleh noted that "the federal general budget tables for the year 2025 will be based on the constants of Federal Budget Law No. 13 of 2024, taking into account international and regional economic conditions and their changes, in a way that ensures the adaptation of the provisions of the budget tables for the year 2025 within the available legal texts, in addition to relying on the performance of the indicators of the general budget tables for the year 2024."

He stressed that "major construction projects will continue to progress in accordance with the vision of the government programme to ensure the continuity of growth rates in the gross domestic product in general and the gross domestic product (non-oil) in particular."   LINK