Vice President of Parliamentary Finance: The survival of one paragraph in the budget needs political consensus

by **RamblerNash** Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:28 am

Time: 03/19/2021 16:51:22

{Baghdad: Al-Furat News} The Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee, Muthanna Abdul Samad Al-Samarrai, confirmed, on Friday, the existence of one paragraph in the General Budget Law that needs political consensus.

Al-Samarrai said during "a meeting of the committee to discuss the latest version of the federal budget bill for 2021, which was subject to study and evaluation and included the last thing agreed upon between representatives of the political blocs in the committee."

He added, "The committee made great efforts to reach the approval of the draft budget law in its final version after shuttling meetings that lasted for about three months without interruption, during which the committee hosted ministers and representatives of government institutions, leaving only one paragraph related to the Kurdistan region and needs political consensus in order to agree on it."

Raghad Daham

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