Kurdistan Minister: There are no major differences over the budget with Baghdad, and after it is approved, we will proceed with the budget of the region
Shafaq News / The Minister of Planning in the Kurdistan Region, Dara Rashid, expressed on Tuesday his optimism that the federal budget for 2021 will be approved, including the region’s share during the upcoming sessions of the Iraqi Parliament and after the completion of the approval of the draft law of the Federal Supreme Court.
Rashid said in a press conference held in the Parliament of Kurdistan and attended by the correspondent of Shafaq News Agency, that the draft Federal Court law caused the postponement of the budget bill being included in the agenda of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, adding that the Federal Court law has cut good stages for its approval, and then the budget vote will start.
He pointed out that there are no points of contention between Erbil and Baghdad over the draft budget law, and we in the regional government are committed to the text contained in the draft law sent by the federal government.
The minister added, “Of course, any bill when it reaches Parliament undergoes changes, but we do not see that there are major differences between us and the Iraqi political parties and blocs over the budget, and we hope that we will skip this issue in the coming sessions because approving the budget is in the interest of Iraq in general and in the region.” Kurdistan in particular.
Regarding the region’s budget for the current year, the Minister of Planning said that “the draft budget law for Kurdistan is ready, but one of its paragraphs includes the region’s share in the federal budget in relation to the operational and investment budget and the amount of money that the region will receive, stressing that the issue of determining the price of selling the region’s oil in its budget is linked to what Parliament will decide it in the federal budget.