PM’s advisor announces the government’s readiness to send 2022 budget

Baghdad-INA 

 The Technical Adviser to the Prime Minister Haitham Al-Jubouri announced, today, Friday, the government's readiness to send the general budget for the year 2022.

 Al-Jubouri told Al-Iraqiya News and the Iraqi News Agency (INA) followed it up, that "the government is ready to complete the draft budget," noting that "the budget It takes two weeks in the Council of Ministers to complete it and submit it to the Legal Committee in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and to the Council of Ministers. 

 He added that "the government is ready to send the budget whenever the House of Representatives requests it," noting that "the recent Federal Court decision was clear that the budget cannot be sent from the current government." 

 He continued that "the House of Representatives under his presidency can send a letter to the Federal Court inquiring about the budget law," noting that "the Iraqi constitution singled out a special article for the budget law and the mechanisms for dealing with this law, and then the Financial Administrative Law No. 6 of 2019, which defined the mechanisms for sending the budget. Therefore, does sending the budget law apply the interpretation that was sent to the President of the Republic, or with the decision issued by the Federal Court, which stipulates that the caretaker government has no right to send draft laws,” explaining that “the answer comes from the Federal Court as the authority authorized to interpret the articles of the Iraqi constitution.” .