AFTER APPROVING THE BUDGET, AL-SUDANI CALLS ON PARLIAMENT TO MONITOR THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT: NO COURTESY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PEOPLE
On Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani called on the Iraqi Parliament to strengthen the government’s work by following up on the legislative and oversight efforts, following the vote on the 2024 budget, stressing that there is no courtesy at the expense of the people.
Al-Sudani said, in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, “With greater appreciation and pride, we congratulate the responsible step of the esteemed House of Representatives, represented in approving the 2024 budget schedules, related to Law (13 of 2023), the Federal General Budget Law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal years (2023). , 2024, 2025).
Al-Sudani expressed his “thanks and appreciation for the efforts of the Presidency of the House of Representatives, the political forces, the parliamentary committees, and the Finance Committee, which completed the government effort, and what was previously approved in the Council of Ministers, represented by the budget schedules (A, B, C, D, E, and F).”
Al-Sudani stressed, “to continue implementing the government program, which received the vote of the House of Representatives and the support of the political forces, in order to complete the goals and implement the priorities that represent, above all, the aspirations and demands of our Iraqi people that they wish the government to fulfill. ”
He continued: “On this occasion, we call on the House of Representatives and the governorate councils to support the government’s work by following up on the legislative and oversight efforts, which our government institutions, with all their arms and bodies, view as support for their work, a course correction, and a guarantee against corruption, deviation, and failure, just as we promised our people that there is no room for delaying. There should be no courtesy at the expense of people’s interests, preserving public money, and implementing services in all their names.”
Earlier today, Monday, the Iraqi Council of Representatives voted on the budget schedules for the current year, 2024.
The hours before the vote witnessed controversy within the Parliamentary Finance Committee, as votes were taken twice on the budget tables due to disagreements.
And earlier; Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Saad Al-Tobi, confirmed that the committee voted on the federal budget schedules for the year 2024 without making changes to them, indicating that two trillion dinars had been allocated for transfer between the exchange doors.
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