House of Representatives approve the budget in 2017 has unanimously

House of Representatives approve the budget in 2017 has unanimously

05/12/2016

Baghdad / term

After marathon negotiations fought political blocs throughout the day on Sunday, the House of Representatives voted on the general budget for 2017.

And wrangles final day postpone the parliament session, which was scheduled at five o'clock in the evening, more than once, until they were held at eight o'clock and lasted into late.

And it passed the House of Representatives, in the evening session, with revenues estimated 79.11 trillion Iraqi dinars budget, and a deficit of 21 trillion dinars. It was calculated as the rate of $ 42 for a barrel of a basic source of oil, of which the export of 3.7 million barrels per day, including 250 thousand barrels of the Kurdistan region of oil and 300 thousand barrels of Kirkuk. Parliament also voted to allocate $ 5 for every barrel of oil to the provinces.

The session witnessed the withdrawal of the Kurdistan Democratic bloc in protest against the non-inclusion of the Peshmerga forces allocations in Article IX, which determine the share of the Kurdistan region.

Article 9 / I that "determines the share of the Kurdistan region of 17% Seventeen percent of the actual total expenditures shown in (Table / d expenditures ruling) attached to this law and paid by the Federal Ministry of Finance and the approval of the Prime Minister."

Article 11 of the Budget also provides that "re-examined in the share of the Kurdistan region and governorates not organized in a region in the federal budget for the year 2017 and beyond in light of the results of statistics and the census for the year 2017 to be in the light of determining the actual amount of the share of the region or province are not organized in region in the federal budget for the year / 2018 and display the difference on the Federal Council of Ministers of settlement. ".

Parliament also voted on Article 19, which prohibits the three presidencies appointments and the return of all of its members to their constituencies. Paragraph c of the same article, "Stop appointments in the three presidencies (the House of Representatives, the Presidency, the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Prime Minister's Office), and the agencies and departments its subsidiaries, and may not be transferred services or placement at it from the ministries with the return of all employees of the ministries to their constituencies. ".

Article 33 also included a provision for the deduction of 3.8% from the salaries of state employees in general to cover the popular crowd and displaced expenses and compel the Kurdistan Regional Government to deduct the same percentage of the county staff.