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Parliamentary Committee Reveals Date of Passing Budget Amendment in Parliament

1/25/2025

 

Baghdad

The Parliamentary Committee on Regions and Governorates revealed, today, Saturday (January 25, 2025), the date for passing the amendment to the Federal Budget Law.

The deputy head of the committee, Jawad Al-Yasari, told Baghdad Today, “The amendment to the budget law will be passed after the end of the recess of the House of Representatives due to the Rajab visit to Baghdad, and after that the date for resuming the sessions will be determined."

Al-Yasari added, “There is a political consensus to pass the amendment to the budget law with the aim of resolving the differences between Baghdad and Erbil, as well as to expedite the sending of the 2025 budget tables, especially since the government has been very late in sending them."

It is noteworthy that the Kurdistan Regional Government issued an angry statement last Thursday regarding the amendment of the federal budget law.

The spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement that “after a series of meetings and persistent efforts aimed at amending the federal general budget law by the Council of Representatives with the aim of resuming the export of the region’s oil, and after completing the "First and second readings, unfortunately, the draft law was not approved in the agreed-upon form at the last minute."

For its part, the federal government denied, last Thursday, what was announced by the spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, regarding submitting a proposal contrary to the amendment of the Council of Ministers in the financial budget law to the House of Representatives.

Government spokesman Bassem Al-Awadi responded in a statement that “based on the government’s keenness on transparency and disclosure to citizens of the progress of its executive work, especially with regard to the budget issue, which is a fundamental pillar for implementing the commitments contained in the government programme, we confirm the government's commitment to the amendments sent to the House of Representatives regarding the budget law, which takes into account the supreme national interest, and we stress that the government's representative in the House of Representatives stressed the need not to make any other Amendments to the budget law that contradict the texts submitted by the Council of Ministers.”

The amendments to the federal budget for the current year have caused a great deal of controversy within the political corridors, as some representatives have blamed the government for raising the spending ceilings, while the latter has responded on more than one occasion that the responsibility lies with Parliament for making changes to the budget items and tampering with its schedules sent to Parliament.

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