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Parliamentary Energy Reveals US Pressure to Pass Budget Amendment Law...and This is the Reason
1/23/2025
Baghdad
The Parliamentary Energy Committee revealed, on Thursday, American pressure to pass the amendment to the budget law.
The Deputy Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives, Adnan Al-Jaberi, said in an interview with the “Al-Mudawala” program, which is broadcast on “Al-Ahd” channel, that “most of the companies operating in the Kurdistan Region are American,” stressing that “the American administration is pressing to expedite the amendment of the budget law.”
He added, "The amendment of the budget aims to address the oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil," indicating that "the amendment of Article 14 of the budget will lead to the appointment of about 12,000 employees on a contract basis."
He added, "The vote on amending the budget will lead to Baghdad's recognition of the oil contracts concluded by the region," explaining that "we proposed to the region to establish a national oil company affiliated with the federal Ministry of Oil."
He added, "We are seeking to amend Article 12 of the budget in a strict manner to prevent the region and the center from evading implementation."
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Hanan Al-Fatlawi calls on Parliament to pass the budget amendment as quickly as the three laws were approved
1/24/2025
Baghdad
Head of the Irada bloc, MP Hanan Al-Fatlawi, called on the House of Representatives today, Friday, to pass the amendment to the three-year budget law with the same speed with which it passed the three laws.
Al-Fatlawi said in a tweet followed by "Mawazine News": "I call on the House of Representatives to pass the budget amendment with the same speed with which it passed the three laws within seconds."
She added, "Keeping the budget unamended means that the government will continue to pay one trillion dinars per month in salaries to the region, while companies in the region continue to produce 320,000 barrels per day (870 billion dinars per month) that are smuggled outside Iraq and sold at low prices, much lower than SOMO prices, in addition to Turkey demanding a fine of $24 million per month for not exporting oil through the Iraqi pipeline extending to Ceyhan."