Parliamentary Finance: It was agreed to pass a borrowing law in order to distribute salaries
Baghdad today – The Parliamentary Finance Committee announced, on Monday, that it had been agreed to pass a borrowing law for the distribution of salaries.
The committee said in a brief statement, after its meeting with Al-Kazemi, that “the internal borrowing law will be passed in order to distribute salaries.”
Earlier, Ahmed Mulla Talal, a spokesman for the Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, said today, Monday, that a positive atmosphere prevailed in the meeting that brought Al-Kazemi together with the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Haitham Al-Jubouri, in order to vote on the draft law on financing the fiscal deficit.
“A positive atmosphere dominated by a sense of shared responsibility prevailed in the meeting of the Prime Minister, Mr. Mustafa Al-Kazemi, with the Chairman and members of the Parliamentary Finance Committee,” Mulla Talal said in a tweet, which he saw (Baghdad today).
He added, “The employee’s sustenance and the need to secure it quickly was a common concern, and we look forward to voting on a law to cover the fiscal deficit next Thursday to start launching employees’ salaries.”
The House of Representatives ended, the day before yesterday, Saturday, the second reading of the bill to finance the fiscal deficit.
The internal system of the House of Representatives stipulates that the time limit that separates the last reading of any bill and voting is 72 hours, and therefore the House of Representatives will present, next Wednesday, the draft law on financing the fiscal deficit, in order to vote on it.
The Minister of Finance, Ali Allawi, said in a televised interview last week that the time period that we need to release salaries, in the event of a vote on the draft law on financing the fiscal deficit, is only two days.