Parliamentary efforts to legislate a law granting a proportion of oil imports to the Iraqi people

politics
  • 30-01-2022, 15:49
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    Baghdad-INA 
    The First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hakim Al-Zamili, announced that there are efforts to legislate a law that grants a percentage of oil imports to the Iraqi people, while instructing the formation of a committee to combat drugs.
    And his media office stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Al-Zamili chaired a meeting with senior advisers to the House of Representatives, and directed the rapid preparation of a comprehensive strategy for legislative and oversight policy for this parliamentary session, and the formation of a committee to follow up on the implementation and activation of the government's suspended laws."
    Al-Zamili stressed, according to the statement, that "the current session will focus on legislating laws that serve citizens," expressing his quest "to legislate a law to deduct a percentage of oil imports and grant it to the unemployed, graduates, patients and people with special needs, as the first law to be voted on in this session, as well as other important laws related to unemployment, revitalizing industry and national agriculture, and controlling border crossings.
    He pointed out that "the formation of a committee to combat narcotics and psychotropic substances, amending its law, finding effective solutions to prevent their spread and trafficking, and establishing healthy and practical mechanisms to treat addicts."