June 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Parliament of Iraq will dedicate all this Sunday to the process of approving the country’s expected General Budgets, a task that is practically surpassing article by article, among the complaints of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds about various aspects of the item.
This Sunday morning the controversial article 14 has been approved, referring to the management of oil benefits by the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan despite the discrepancies between its two large formations, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Union Patriotic of Kurdistan, on the concrete distribution of these benefits at the local level, reports the Kurdish agency Rudaw.
The morning session has resulted in the approval of 18 articles of the budget project before the president of the Chamber, Mohamed al Halbusi, adjourned the session until 1:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. in mainland Spain) to continue debating other external budget issues to Iraqi Kurdistan.
The budgets for 2023 to 2025, estimated at 140,000 million euros, have been approved by the Iraqi government but are pending parliamentary ratification after a year of emptiness.
The special representative for Iraq of the United Nations General Secretariat, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has asked the Government of Baghdad on behalf of the international community to immediately adopt a federal budget as a preliminary to an economic reform that addresses the concerns of the population referring to the bad distribution of the benefits of crude oil, the excess of bureaucracy and the almost permanent suspicions of corruption on the authorities.
