September 12, 2009The Presidency of the parliament hopes to vote on the supplementary budget this week
Tomorrow .. meeting of the leaders of parliamentary blocs to resolve election law
BAGHDAD - morning
Seek the Presidency of the parliament to resolve the controversies on the legal department of elections and supplementary budget carriers lead completely as of great significance. And parliamentary blocs, are trying to intensify their consultations to be held tomorrow at a meeting of their representatives to decide on election law
Facing controversy concerning the form and mechanisms and the system of the coming legislative elections, in parallel with the hope of many of the hope that the House of Representatives is voting on the draft supplementary budget this week that included in the treatment of service issues and security.
And the House resumes its sessions today to discuss a number of issues on the agenda. During the second session of the legislative term and the last session yesterday, which was devoted to discuss the supplementary budget for this year's Finance Minister Bayan Jabr "The supplementary budget is submitted by a national necessity," referring to a "necessary and important issues can not be overcome in the current budget for the current year , especially after the great injustice was done to the provinces of Diyala and Mosul, which have not been able to implement because of balancing them against the security situation and the issue of compensation Sadr City and the shortfall in the budget of many ministries and various governmental institutions and Iraq's foreign debt, in addition to providing support for some vital projects, the task can not be left on and current status.
focused opinions of deputies in their discussion of the draft supplementary budget to be allocated the budget for the construction of desalination plants and the promotion of the cultural reality of Iraq and end the file of the displaced and coverage of the districts and suburbs of Mosul province assignments as well as compensation of people affected by the terrorist attacks, wondering about the reason for delayed submission of the supplementary budget and its impact on public budget for next year, directed their criticism regarding some of the figures and the amounts contained in the draft budget. and by the First Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid al-Attiya hoped to vote on the draft supplementary budget later this week, saying a meeting of the parliamentary blocs on Sunday to decide on election law.
On another, the President of the Legal Committee MP Bahaa al-b "vote on the election law after amending the previous articles it or vote on the new election law, passed by the Council of Ministers," stressing the need "to maintain the immunity of judges, and the arrest warrant through the Board of Supreme Judiciary, especially when the information is received for the arrest of five judges ", while MP Mohammed al-Samarrai of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Presidency of the Council to express an opinion on the relationship between Iraq and Syria, as it had the approval of the President call the meeting to discuss the issue by the Committee on Foreign Relations. In the context of attitudes parliamentary supplementary budget, "said Coalition MP Abbas al-Bayati:
The supplementary budget for the current year are for services and security and not subject to political interactions." The supplementary budget earmarked for construction, services and security, and the position of the House of Representatives will be with the support of this budget, because it is not possible to demand the government to provide services without the cooperation with them to pass the supplementary budget, "adding that he" can not call upon the government to establish security and stability without the imposition of expenses and to provide the required provision for the security services ", and called at the same time," the parliamentary blocs not to politicize the debate on the budget for propaganda campaign.
Bayati stressed the need to speed up the "pass the budget before the Eid al-Fitr holiday to enable the Government and the provincial fire service projects and security stalled and delayed. in turn, said a member of the parliamentary economic Mahma Khalil:" Despite our comments on the supplementary budget for the current year, amounting to four billion and $ 410 million, but it is the first time which is allocated 78 percent of investment expenditures, "adding that" the allocation of this part of the supplementary budget to stimulate investment expenditure of the Iraqi economy and active movement of reconstruction and contribute to the provision of services for this phase.
Khalilzad urged the factions to "pass the supplementary budget during the meetings this week, "pointing out that" not to pass the supplementary budget would disrupt projects and to paralyze the government in investment and adversely affect the economy. For his part, the head of the Supreme Council in the House, Sheikh Jalaluddin al-Saghir presidency of the parliament to postpone questioning of Chief Election Commissioner and the Minister of electricity. The small in a press statement: "Parliament and the mass of an organ to activate the political process seriously questioned, but the Presidency of the parliament again started to move away from the path they must abide by the activation of a supervisory role," hinting at the existence of "parties in the parliament does not want the process of questioning that goes on officials executive organs.
He continued: "What happened yesterday to postpone questioning of the Minister of Electricity, which was scheduled and Chairman of the Electoral Commission is a big disappointment and illustrates the nature of procrastination by certain members of the Presidency of the parliament.
It was the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to postpone the questioning of the Minister of Electricity Kareem single and head of the Electoral Commission for elections Faraj to the next month. In another context, greeted the Sadrist bloc in parliament, announce that impede the election bill in the absence of the adoption of open list in the upcoming elections.
The MP said the Sadrist bloc, Bahaa al: "The political body of Sadr threatens all blocs and political figures in the House of Representatives, it will announce who is trying to block approval of the new electoral law in the absence of the adoption of these blocks open list in the new election law as a popular demand.
Araji said that "there are some blocs and alliances working on survival closed-list the fact that these blocks, so we rejected at the popular flags of the Iraqi people, including the transparency stand behind the block the new electoral law in order to achieve partisan and personal interests. The debate is still raging in the House over the bill of the forthcoming parliamentary elections, especially in relation to the electoral system and the mechanisms adopted in this regard.
