The Iraqi Government asks the political forces to resolve once and for all the adoption of the Budgets

2 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Iraqi government has asked Parliament and the country’s political forces this Sunday to reach the necessary consensus as soon as possible to achieve once and for all the adoption of the General Budgets at a time when the chamber is close to beginning its Executive, final deliberations.

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 government wants to reaffirm its confidence in the representatives of the people and we appreciate their ability to discern the pressing circumstances that our nation is facing,” government spokesman Basim al-Awadi said in a statement reported by the Iraqi media. .

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.

For this reason “the Government implores the deputies, the parliamentary leaders and the political powers to amplify their efforts to finalize the budgets, given the immediate relevance that they entail for the interests of the citizens”, adds the spokesman.