Thursday, February 21, 2013

Hall of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (Archive) Parliament postpones vote on the budget session for the third time for lack of quorum

02/21/2013





Term Press / Baghdad

Decided Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, Thursday, postpone the parliamentary session of the 12 of the second legislative term of the year legislative third scheduled for today, to vote on the budget bill to the day after tomorrow, Saturday, for lack of quorum, for the third time in ten days.

The decision Parliament Mohammed al-Khalidi in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The House Speaker Osama Najafi decided to postpone the parliamentary session of the 12 of the second legislative term of the year legislative third was scheduled for today, to the day after tomorrow, Saturday," attributing the cause to "lack of quorum."

And was scheduled to see today's meeting, the vote on the bill balancer financial for the current year 2013, and vote on the draft law on ratification of the letters and diaries mutual and record discussions on the Japanese loan to the Republic of Iraq signed on the 29 May 2012, (rehabilitation of the health sector, and develop a network of contacts in the major cities, and update Musfah Peggy), and vote on the draft law on ratification of the letters and diaries mutual and record discussions on the Japanese loan to the Republic of Iraq signed on the 29 May 2012, (updated Basra refinery), and vote on the bill the first amendment to the Law of Antiquities and Heritage No. (55) for the year 2002, and vote on the draft registration law, adoption and protection of agricultural varieties, and the second reading of the proposed law regulating the duration of the work designated agency.

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."

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