Disagreements about three paragraphs postpone the vote on the budget bill to Sunday.

Disagreements about three paragraphs postpone the vote on the budget bill to Sunday.



Sunday, December 04 2016 - 02:50 GMT

It delayed the Presidency of the Council of Representatives today's meeting to the evening on Sunday due to the continuing dispute over the budget bill.

He said a parliamentary source that "the presidency of the parliament decided to postpone the hearing until five o'clock Sunday evening, to give the parliamentary blocs more time to resolve two points Khlavian coalition forces and the Kurdistan Alliance," in addition to the allocation of the province of Basra.

The source added, "The points Klavian which Arqlta approving the budget law is demanding coalition forces to allocate 35% of the budget of the popular crowd for the crowd clan, and claim the Kurds to allocate funds to Halabja after it was transferred to the province to become the proportion of the province 21%."

In turn, attributed the parliamentary Finance Committee, throughout the voting on the draft budget law to the continuing differences on some of its articles.

The deputy chairman of the Finance Committee Faleh applicable in a statement, "it was a delay in the vote on the budget for 2017 due to the differences on the ratio of the population and export of oil and the benefits the province of Basra."

He was scheduled to hold the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Saturday, the 35th of its first legislative term of the third legislative year, the business was limited to a paragraph vote on the draft General Budget Law for the next 2017 schedule

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