On Wednesday, the Parliamentary Finance Committee conditioned the extension of the current legislative term on the arrival of the 2024 budget schedules to Parliament, which it said was “very large.”
The current legislative term is scheduled to end next Thursday, corresponding to May 9, 2024. Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Muhammad Nouri, told Shafaq News Agency, “The legislative term of the House of Representatives does not end if the budget law reaches the Council, and the term remains continuous until it is approved.”
He explained, “The current legislative term will end on May 9, 2024, and if the budget schedules reach Parliament next week, the Presidency of the Council will extend the legislative term.”
Nouri added, “If the budget schedules do not reach Parliament, the legislative term of the Parliament will end on time.”
Nouri described the deficit percentage in the budget tables as “very large,” pointing out that “amendments will be made to the budget tables if they reach Parliament in order to reduce the deficit percentage to 50%.”
The Council of Ministers was scheduled to vote in yesterday’s session, Tuesday, on the budget schedules for the year 2024, and send them to Parliament, according to what was announced by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, but the Council did not include that on its agenda.
The statement from the office of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani during yesterday’s session did not include any details about the 2024 budget schedules.
Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, agreed yesterday, Tuesday, with the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, on the necessity of completing the schedules of the budget law for the year 2024, and expediting sending them to the House of Representatives for the purpose of discussing and voting on them.
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