Clare: Parliamentary Finance will begin next Saturday with its sessions on the budget and prepare it for the second reading
4/05/2023
The Parliamentary Finance Committee has set, today, Thursday, next Saturday, a date to start its sessions on the budget and prepare it for the second reading.
Jamal Cougar, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, told {Euphrates News}, “The committee will start its session on Saturday to study the budget law and prepare the report on the second reading of the budget, and then start hosting government bodies, institutions, local governments, and everyone who has a financial allocation in the budget.”
Yesterday evening, the House of Representatives finished the first reading of the draft law on the federal general budget of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal years 2023, 2024 and 2025.
At the end of the session, First Deputy Speaker Mohsen Al-Mandalawi called for expediting the preparation of a report for the draft budget law and for its second reading, “as it affects the needs of citizens and for the implementation of service and investment projects.”
From.. Raghad Dahham LINK
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Clare: Government Spokesman: The country urgently needs to speed up the approval of the budget
4/06/2023
The Iraqi government commends the national and responsible position of the Iraqi Parliament for its completion of the first reading of the draft general budget for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
This interaction clearly indicates a spirit of high understanding by the people’s representatives of the responsibility entrusted to them and their good appreciation for the circumstances our country is going through and its urgent need to expedite the ratification of the budget, to take its way to implementation and to enable the government to meet the basic needs of our esteemed citizens.
Bassem Al-Awadi,
spokesman for the Iraqi government
Thursday, April 6, 2023 LINK
