The Parliament stresses workig on budget legislation

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16-04-2022, 21:30

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INA - BAGHDAD

Parliamentary Legal Committee confirmed on Saturday, the possibility of legislating the 2022 budget law within the caretaker government, noting that the Parliament is working to find a legal form that would allow it to be approved.

"The dialogue is still ongoing within the committee and the rest of the parliament members in order to find a sound legal form that allows receiving the 2022 draft budget from the caretaker government," said the eldest head of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Muhammad Anouz, to Al-Iraqiya News TV, followed by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

He added, "The Parliament is the supreme legislative body, and it can provide a legal and legislative cover that allows meeting the needs of citizens, especially as the wheel of the economy awaits the financial allocations necessary to run the daily lives of citizens,"

"Any talk about the possibility or not being able to submit the draft budget does not stand in front of the necessary need of the Iraqi society, especially since there is a need to launch job opportunities and sectors awaiting for solutions to legislate the budget," he included.

On the legality of enacting the budget law under the caretaker government, Anouz affirmed that, “there is no violation of the law, and what was stated in the caretaker government’s interpretation of its inability to legislate does not mean that it is a law, as there is hierarchy and the constitution defines in its 85th article, the process of submitting the budget by the Cabinet, the wording of the constitutional text was absolute and general as it did not specify that it is possible or not possible, and what is meant by conducting daily business has to do with the budget because the lives of citizens depend on its approval,"

He stressed that "it is not right to disrupt the budget more, and now the Parliament is working to find a legal form to legislate the budget, as we believe that if it is permissible to legislate the food security law, the budget may be legislated because it is also a law, and whoever wants to challenge this to the Federal Court, we tell them that they have the right to according to the law, it is not correct to further disrupt Iraq's interests in the absence of a budget,"