Economists warn of merging the budgets of 2014 and 2015

Former vice carries the responsibility of the central government financial violations that took place in most of the government institutions because of the adoption of the federal budget within the ceiling of the Constitution. The experts said that the economy and the integration of Almoisntin Thariahma at the same time a new precedent in the Iraqi economy did not occur in previous years, they stressed that the completion of Almoisntin at the same time is difficult to achieve because of the lack of knowledge of the final accounts for the current financial year.

A member of the coalition united Khalid al-Alwani, in an interview for the “long”, “The parliamentary Finance Committee and the Ministry of Finance are two sides concerned to take the decision to merge the budgets of 2014 and 2015.”
and added that “the current year as a result of delays in the general budget of the country got violations and financial damage as a result of the disposal of the central government amounts humbling outside legal contexts and economic, which would cause confusion evident in the process of auditing the final when adoption of the budget. ”
and explained that “some parliamentary blocs proposed merging Almoisntin in the budget and one to cover up the extent of the violations taking place in public funds through dispensing the militias and the Awakening and the tribal leaders due to his deteriorating the security situation by the central government. ”
He said the “absence of an element of transparency in the show disbursements for the current year is considered a major obstacle in the late adoption of the budget in 2014 in addition to the existence of problems about the budget of the Kurdistan region and others.”
and stressed that “the remaining period of the current year is enough to approve Almoisntin provided subjecting the budget in 2014 for the final accounts to find out where the money has gone and with spent to keep the money of the Iraqi people without distinguishing between its components. ”
said financial expert, the appearance of Mohammed’s “long”, “The work on the adoption of the budgets of 2014 and 2015 at the same time is a new experience never before Iraqi parliament experience than Aukd the presence of great difficulties in establishing the two together. ”
and added that “times are constitutional set a specific time for the adoption of the general budget for one fiscal year and repeated delays in each year caused by the legislation and the differences between the political parties.”
explained a former adviser to the central bank said that “the time the remainder of the current year, enough to pass Almoisntin but individually, but must examine and audit the final accounts for the year 2014, although it is considered an exceptional year and dramatic because of the deteriorating security and economic conditions in the country. ”
and said the “final accounts could be accomplished according to the existing hierarchy of calculation in the budget law public either remaining months can be calculated as an estimate. ”
with likely coalition of state law, the possibility of merging the budgets of the years 2014 current and 2015, the next package one, in light near the end of the current parliament, while ruled Kurdistan Alliance and senior adviser to the prime minister and a legal expert that “the lack of compatibility “with the Constitution and the law.
has favored the deputy of the State of Law coalition, headed by Nouri al-Maliki, that is “the integration of the budgets of the years 2014 current and 2015, the next, because the legislative session is almost over,” denying that “the reason for delaying the adoption of the budget in 2014.”
said Abbas al-Bayati , in an interview earlier “long”, that “the few days remaining on the age of the legislative session will not allow the adoption of the general budget,” noting that “indicators suggest the possibility of merging the budget in 2014 with those of the year 2015 next year.”
Al-Bayati said, “The executive power If you decide to send the budgets of 2014 and 2015, the House of Representatives will consider them, “returned to the” coalition of the rule of law does not assume responsibility for delaying the budget because it called on everyone to attend the meetings of the Council for discussion. ”
It is noteworthy that the current legislative session ends in (the 14 of June 2014 Current) .
, but a deputy from the Kurdistan Alliance, counting “merging the budgets of 2014 and 2015 in one package violates the Constitution and the law,” expected “sharpen the differences within parliament on the subject.”
said Mahma Khalil, in an interview to the “long”, it was “not possible constitutionally and legally merge the budgets of the year 2014 current and 2015, the next, “returned to” the next parliament could approve the budget of 2014 the current, and then those of the year which followed. ”
Khelil predicted that “more acute differences within the next parliament if the government is sending Moisntin Madmjtin . ”
On the other hand, the chief of the advisers in the Office of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to “be integrated into the budgets of 2014 and 2015″, stressing that “the lack of adoption of the budget in 2014 will not lead to economic collapse.”
said Thamer Ghadhban, said in an interview stalk “long” , said it was “not possible to merge the budgets of 2014 and 2015, because every one of them should recognize separately by the House of Representatives next,” returned to “non-adoption of the budget in 2014 will not lead to economic collapse as promoted by the other, because the government continues regardless 1 / 12 of the operating budget. ”
called Anger, the House of Representatives next because “puts the adoption of the budget at the top of its agenda,” and expressed regret for “non-adoption of the budget so far.”
Meanwhile, endorsed a legal expert, “not to the possibility of merging the budgets of 2014 and 2015 . ”
said Hassan Shaaban “long”, it was “not possible to merge the budgets of 2014 and 2015, but must approve the budget in 2014 and then discuss the 2015 Council of Ministers then turned to the House of Representatives for discussion and approval,” pointing out that “the law and the Constitution confirmed that” .
the voice of the Council of Ministers, in (the 15 of January 2014), to approve a bill the federal budget for the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2014, and forwarded to the House of Representatives based on the provisions of Article (61 / I and item 80 / item II) of the Constitution, too late for the deadline selected more than one hundred days.
was the Iraqi Council of Representatives, has ended in (12 March 2014), the first reading of the budget bill for the fiscal 2014 current.

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