Cougar: The 2021 budget numbers are very exaggerated and have twice as much expenditures last year

by **claud39** Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:27 pm

01/03/2021

{Baghdad: Al Furat News} A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Jamal Cougar, criticized the "exaggerated" figures in the draft fiscal budget for 2021.

"This year's budget is the highest in the history of modern Iraq, in dinars, but in dollars it is less than 2020," Cougar told Al-Furat News.

He added, "In the budget, very exaggerated numbers," noting that "the general amount spent in the past year was 72 trillion dinars, while the current budget only in the 2021 budget is more than 163 trillion dinars, meaning twice this amount and more."

It is noteworthy that the House of Representatives received, last week, the draft fiscal budget bill for 2021.

The budget sparked several parliamentary and popular criticisms of what it included in the deduction of salaries and the absence of appointments amid expectations of approval this month.

Parliament extended its current legislative term for a period of one month, in order to "complete many important legislations for the coming period, including the budget."

The Presidency of the Council of Representatives confirmed that "the legislative procedures to complete the federal budget law may take 20-30 days, and that the parliament will begin the first reading of the bill in early January."

She added, "There will be serious and intense discussions towards reducing unnecessary expenditures in the budget law, and reducing the deficit ratio for the benefit of the middle classes, the poor and those with low incomes."

Ammar Al-Masoudi

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