Hanan Al-Fatlawi Calls On Parliament To Pass The Budget Amendment As Quickly As The “Three Laws” Were Approved, 25 JAN

 Hanan Al-Fatlawi Calls On Parliament To Pass The Budget Amendment As Quickly As The “Three Laws” Were Approved

Friday 24 January 2025 | Politics Number of readings: 103   Baghdad / NINA / The head of the / Will / bloc, MP Hanan Al-Fatlawi, called on the House of Representatives 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 post on the / X / platform: "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 thousand 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."

Last Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted on the three controversial laws (amending the Personal Status Law, amending the General Amnesty Law, and the Law on Returning Seized Lands to Their Owners) using the “one-basket” method, which sparked protests and objections from many representatives and political blocs, and resorted to challenging the legality of the vote, considering that the necessary quorum was not completed. https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1181868