Al-Haddad denies changing the exchange rate of the dinar in the budget law
Shafaq News / The media office of the Iraqi Deputy Speaker, Bashir Khalil Al-Haddad denied, today, Saturday, that an agreement had been reached to change the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar in the Federal Budget Law.
The media office of the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament stated, in a statement received by Shafaq News: It is true that “some news agencies and social media circulated about the agreement of the Finance Committee and the government in today’s meeting chaired by Al-Haddad about the approval of the Finance Committee for the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar against the US dollar.”
The statement confirmed; That what happened at the meeting regarding the exchange rate; It is “a discussion of its repercussions and the resulting consequences, problems and price increases. It was an extensive discussion between the Parliamentary Finance Committee and the concerned ministers to discuss solutions and ways to address the issue of the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar.”
The official Iraqi News Agency quoted the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Bashir Al-Haddad, as saying, “The government and most of the members of the Finance Committee while keeping the exchange rate in its current position.”