Thursday, February 21, 2013

Block Virtue: Iraq loses four billion dollars a month due to the late adoption of the general budget

02/21/2013




Term Press / Baghdad

Confirmed mass virtue in the House of Representatives, on Thursday, that Iraq is losing month about four billion dollars a month due to the late adoption of the general budget, and showed that most of the investment projects to the Iraqi ministries parked, as demanded Parliament to speed up the vote on the budget and adopt a proposal split the investment budget to five-year high .

The MP said the bloc Virtue, Hussein Mura'bi, during a press conference building the House of Representatives, today attended, (range Press), said that "Iraq is losing more than four billion dollars a month due to the late adoption of the budget," and urged the House of Representatives "to speed up the vote on the budget To avoid this great loss. "

He Mura'bi that "the wheel of development in Iraq late and turned government institutions to consumer behavior supplementary budget only from the salaries," noting that "the investment budget, amounting to $ 47 billion parked means delayed completion of projects under implementation and lack of direct new projects."

He Mura'bi that "any party impeding budget contribute to the waste of billions of dollars," and urged the Ministry of Planning to "adopt our proposal Previous regarding the division of the investment budget to five-year strategy for large projects and high for small projects to prevent delays in the completion of projects Giants."

The lifting of the House of Representatives 21 th day of February 2013, the 12th session of Parliament scheduled to vote on the budget on Saturday, due to lack of quorum, for the third time in ten days.

The postponement of the parliamentary session of the 12 allocated to the vote on the budget bill financial for the current year 2013, the third within ten days, as determined by the head of the Iraqi parliament Osama al-Nujaifi, in the 11 of February 2013, suspended until agreement on a budget bill, while decided, first Tuesday, ( February 19, 2013), postponed to Thursday, for lack of a quorum because of continuing differences on the budget.

The State of Law coalition announced, first Tuesday, (February 19 2013), an agreement alliances national and Kurdistan to pass the draft budget without reducing the share of Kurdistan annual ones, which amounts to 17%, and added that the two sides also agreed to hold a census in Iraq during the year current exact percentage of the population of the region of the population of Iraq and dealing on this basis and retroactively, and the financing of the Peshmerga same previous version which includes granting advances to Peshmerga agreement between President Nuri al-Maliki and the region, Massoud Barzani, "stressing that the parties also agreed that" the payment of dues to oil companies operating in the region with the same mechanism that pays dues to companies operating in the south.

The parliament failed in its the 11 of the second legislative term of the year legislative third session, on the seventh of February 2013, in the vote on the bill this year's budget, to make Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi open meeting, after the failure of heads of parliamentary blocs to reach a final agreement on a formula the law.

And declared the Iraqi List, on the fourth of February 2013, they will refuse to vote on the current year budget being allocated amounts "fairy" to the prime minister, their two million and a half million dollars, while Re coalition of state law, the sixth of February 2013, describing the objection of the Iraqi List on budget Council of Ministers for the current year "Speech Baelchenhna is not ethical," among that "there are a large number of circuits associated with the Cabinet, accusing Iraq of being" want to ignite resentment among the Iraqi people. "

The Council of Ministers approved, on the fifth of November 2012, the budget year 2013 worth 138 trillion Iraqi dinars, while parliament announced, in the 26 December 2012, re-draft budget to the government to make amendments to it.

The estimated value of Iraq's budget for 2013 b 138 trillion Iraqi dinars calculated based on the price of oil at $ 90 per barrel, and an export rate of two million and 900 thousand barrels per day.

It is noteworthy that political sources and other parliamentary, attributed the mismatch on the draft budget, to raise political blocs its demands, it stated that the state law insists Set Session certain local governments and reduce the share of the Kurdistan region, the Kurdistan Alliance insists on increasing allocations Peshmerga and maintain the ratio Territory of the budget amounting to 17 percent, as well as the allocation of funds to oil companies operating in the region, and would require the Iraqi List, the census and non-interference central government in the affairs of local governments before agreeing on the budget, as well as increasing the price of a barrel of oil to neighboring countries, which is now $ 50, Sadrists insist on the implementation of the 25 percent of the surplus oil sales and distribution to citizens with passage of the Pension Act, while demanding citizen adoption of block grant university students and increase social welfare grant and made 250 thousand dinars as a condition for voting on the budget.

It is noteworthy that the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil, which broke out during the (November of 2012), and that brought things between the two capitals to the limits of "brinkmanship" after Thrikema of heavy weapons and Thacidha within Kirkuk, their impact on the attitude of the coalition of state law to balance the Kurdistan region, But talk about the topic "eased" against the backdrop of escalating protests and sit-ins in the Sunni areas, which has made the "hawks" of state law influence "silence" tactical retreat, even while, in light of their position that "I do not envy him."