Al-Sadr: The Sadrist bloc’s deputies are ready to resign

Shafaq News / On Thursday, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, directed deputies of the Sadrist bloc in the Iraqi Council of Representatives to write their resignations in preparation for submitting them to the presidency of the Council, against the background of the continued obstruction of the formation of a majority government by the coordination framework that includes Shiite political forces.

Al-Sadr said in a televised speech today, “If the survival of the Sadrist bloc is an obstacle to forming a government, all the bloc’s deputies are ready to resign.”

Al-Sadr renewed his refusal to form the next Iraqi government on the principle of consensus, and said, “These are two options: either the opposition, or the withdrawal, and in general, Iraq does not need an absolute government, but rather an absolute government with a majority that serves its people and restores its prestige.”

He added, “Let my dear Sadrist bloc deputies write their resignations and submit them to the Presidency of the House of Representatives after instructing them to submit them in the coming days.”

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Talabani on the emergency support law: a detour .. and the formation of the government is no longer important!

Wednesday, former parliament member and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Ala Talabani, commented on the “emergency support law.”

Talabani said in a blog post that “what was passed today in the name of food security is a circumvention of the budget law and the transfer of the powers of the caretaker government to full financial powers.”

He stressed that “after that, the formation of the government was no longer an important matter.”

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Expert Warns: The Absence Of The Right Policies Will Turn The Financial Abundance Into A “Curse”

Information / Baghdad.. The economic expert Younis Al-Kaabi stressed, on Saturday, that the financial abundance that occurs must be in honest hands keen to employ it in the development of basic sectors to be in the future an essential tributary to the treasury with oil imports, warning that abundance will turn into a “curse” if policies are absent. correct.

Al-Kaabi said in a statement to “Information”, that “the rise in oil prices as a result of the international conflict and the Russian-Ukrainian war is an opportunity that will not be compensated for by the Iraqi treasury, which has generated large and continuous financial savings for this year and next, according to experts and international data.”

He added, “These large funds must be in the hands of specialists who are keen on the people’s money and must be employed and exploited in the development of the industrial, agricultural, tourism and service sectors to be in the future an essential tributary to the treasury with oil imports,” noting that “this abundance is a blessing from God to the Iraqi people and an irreplaceable opportunity. drained of consumer issues that will become a curse on the Iraqi people.”

Al-Kaabi called on the political forces to “accelerate solving the political blockage crisis, giving priority to the interest of the people over the Iraqi people over partisan and factional interests, and forming the government as soon as possible so that a solid economic policy is put in place that preserves these booms because they are a blessing and on the contrary, it will be a curse on the Iraqi people.”

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Parliamentary Integrity: The emergency support law will delay approving the country’s budget

Shafaq News / The head of the Iraqi Parliament’s Integrity Committee warned today, Saturday, of the delay in approving the country’s general budget if the emergency support law is passed.

“Although the emergency support law is an emergency measure that must be adopted to finance important benefits in the joints of the state, ministries and the interests of citizens, it will delay the approval of the federal budget, which is solutions to many problems and benefits with the rise in oil prices in global markets,” MP Nahida Al-Dini told Shafaq News.

And Al-Daini called for “the adoption of an integrated budget that guarantees the financing of grades and job benefits for all segments whose applications and benefits have been pending for years, and the financing of ministries with the necessary budgets to carry out their service duties towards the people.”

And she added, “The approval of emergency support and the allocation of high amounts in its provisions will weaken the budget allocations in light of the extensive financial benefits and the state’s internal and external obligations,” continuing by saying, “Emergency support is a measure and a necessary solution in the current circumstance because the government is not formed and the current government remains under pain of conduct and lack of business. Its powers to pass any law or send it to the current parliament.

She explained that “the budget law is prepared by the government and sent to Parliament, but the remaining period after the expiry of half a year requires finding alternative solutions to the budget law to cross the current year and prepare an integrated budget for the next year, which is the reality in light of the current political crisis.”

On May 19, the House of Representatives completed the first reading of the proposed law on emergency support for food security and development.

On the 18th of the same month, the Finance Committee submitted this proposal to the Presidency of the Iraqi Council of Representatives as an alternative to the project submitted by the current caretaker government headed by Mustafa Al-Kazemi.

The law on emergency support for food security sparked controversy between representatives and political blocs and those interested in political affairs between supporters and opponents, before the Federal Supreme Court vetoed the law and invalidated the law because the current government is a government for the conduct of daily business and it is not within its powers to legislate laws, propose them or send them to the House of Representatives.

And the Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in Iraq), decided May 15, 2022, to cancel the draft law on emergency support for food security and development based on a lawsuit filed by Representative Basem Khashan, while it indicated that Al-Kazemi’s government is a caretaker and is not entitled to send bills, contract loans or appoint In the higher positions of the state and exempting them or restructuring ministries and departments.

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Al-Sadr moves the competition arena by “passing laws” in Parliament

While the initiative of the independent representatives remained in place, both major Shiite forces (the Sadrist movement and the coordination framework) are not ready to concede to one another, despite the passage of 7 months since the parliamentary elections.

The political stalemate in the country continues, especially with the absence of any indications of a Kurdish-Kurdish rapprochement that could solve the knot of the post of President of the Republic.

In the meantime, the arena of competition between the two alliances moved from a search for a solution to the complex of the President of the Republic to Parliament. Al-Sadr, who gave his opponents in the Shiite house more than one deadline to form a government without him, began to act from within Parliament by passing the laws he wanted to pass.

More importantly, he forced his Shiite opponents to vote unanimously on the law criminalizing normalization with Israel on the grounds that it is not possible to stand against this law. Muqtada al-Sadr leads the tripartite alliance, while the coordination framework is led by a group of personalities, most notably Nuri al-Maliki, Hadi al-Amiri, Qais al-Khazali, Ammar al-Hakim and Haider al-Abadi.

But Al-Sadr, who was the owner of the idea and the project, performed a prayer of thanks after legislating the law, while his opponents, who gave him the opportunity of this victory, returned to quarrel with him over the position on the prime minister. The same applies to its ally, the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Masoud Barzani, whose party’s deputies voted to criminalize the normalization law, despite the emergence of voices in Kurdistan to stand against this law, at least in terms of the fact that Iraq has legislated since 1969 a law prohibiting the promotion of Zionism, and therefore these voices see This law has nothing more than a political dimension.

Not only that, but the law of emergency support for food security has also turned into an arena of conflict and competition between the two Shiite blocs and their allies. Although the Federal Supreme Court overturned the draft law presented by Mustafa Al-Kazemi’s government to Parliament as an alternative to the draft budget that could not be submitted by a caretaker government, the Sadrist movement, which has the majority in Parliament, was able to submit it again to Parliament through another portal permitted by the constitution. It is a bill, not a bill.

And because al-Sadr has a comfortable majority in Parliament to pass laws that need only a simple majority (half plus one) or an absolute majority of the number of attendees in a full session of Parliament. And in the event that this law is legislated, which has become difficult to overturn by the federation because there is no constitutional basis for it, Al-Sadr will score a major victory for him over his opponents in the coordinating framework forces, since the government headed by Al-Kazemi is currently classified by the coordinating framework forces as close to Al-Sadr.

The dispute over this law between the Sadr and Tire blocs extends to what this law can provide of funds that the government can dispose of, especially if the law is passed with what the government provided in an amount of about 41 trillion Iraqi dinars (about 35 billion US dollars), while the coordination framework He believes that the actual need does not exceed 11 billion dollars. Regardless of whether this law is an alternative to the financial budget or not, it would prolong the political crisis that will put more pressure on the forces of the coordination framework, especially in light of the continuation of Al-Kazemi supported by Al-Sadr, which means that it will either have to Making concessions that al-Sadr is waiting for, or resorting to other ways to deal with the crisis, including riding the wave of the street that is already angry at the deterioration of services, especially electricity, which is the hot file every summer when the temperature starts to rise.

While al-Sadr formed, through his bloc, which topped the election results (75 deputies), the “Save the Nation” alliance that included the Sunni and Kurdistan Democratic “sovereignty”, the “coordinating framework” with its various forces and the multiplicity of its leaders, blocs and factions, was also able to form an alliance that included the On his side, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Sunni “Azm”. Both alliances have failed over the past months to form a new government at a time when Mustafa Al-Kazemi’s government, which is doing business, continues its responsibilities and authorities, except for signing agreements.

The node is represented in the majority coalition owned by al-Sadr calling for the formation of a national majority government, but he was unable to gather enough votes to elect a president of the republic, since the position of the president of the republic, according to the constitution, needs a two-thirds majority of parliament members, which means 220 votes out of a total of 329 votes. And because the two Kurdish parties must agree to choose one candidate for this position, which is customarily part of the Kurdish quota, the failure to reach consensus led to the violation of constitutional deadlines.

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Global economic data: Iraq will record the second highest growth rate in 2022

Shafaq News / Forecasts prepared in April 2022 showed that the global economy is expected to grow by 3.6% this year, and this comes in light of the pressures it is facing.

The RT station, quoting Statista, published data from FMI and the World Economic Outlook, which indicated that ten economies in the world are expected to grow at the highest pace in 2022, and the list included 3 Arab countries.

According to a graph by “Statista”, a German company specializing in market and consumer data, the Iraqi economy will grow at a rate of 9.5% this year and will rank second in the list after Guyana, which will lead the world’s economies in growth, as its economy is expected to grow by 47.2%.

In third place comes Kuwait (8.2%), then India (8.2%), followed by Saudi Arabia (7.6%), then Panama (7.5%), Niger (6.9%), then the Philippines (6.5%), Falcongo (6.4%), And then Bangladesh (6.4%).

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Legal expert: Parliament can pass the 2022 budget despite the presence of a caretaker government

Legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi confirmed that Parliament can pass the 2022 budget despite the presence of the caretaker government in power, pointing out that the Financial Management Law allows Parliament to do so.

Al-Tamimi said in a press interview, “Parliament has the authority to authorize the caretaker government to send the general budget law because it is related to food security, which is one of the first priorities of the caretaker government.”

He added that “the mandate to send the budget requires a vote of the absolute majority of the number of members in Parliament, and that this right is limited only to the budget law exclusively.”

And he indicated that “the mandate should include the approval of the final accounts of the previous year’s budget in accordance with the Financial Management and Public Debt Law No. 6 of 2019, as all of this comes in accordance with Articles 62, 5 and 61 of the Constitution and 12 and 13 of the Financial Management and Public Debt Law No. 6 of 2019 and articles From 128 to 138 of the Parliament’s Bylaws and Procedures.

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Financial Adviser to the Prime Minister: Financial abundance is a historic opportunity for Iraq

Baghdad / Obelisk: The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed on Monday, May 9, 2022, that the financial policy in Iraq is between a “hammer and an anvil,” noting that the financial abundance is a historic opportunity for Iraq, and spending it is not easy.

Saleh said in a statement followed by the obelisk, that “the financial surpluses that are obtained recently came from the rise in oil prices in the world and are linked to the war in Russia, and it is not possible to know how long this war will last, but there are expectations that it will remain until 2024, and thus Iraq will achieve a great financial abundance.” .

He added, “The financial policy in Iraq is between a rock and a hard place. The hammer is the existence of a large area of ​​poverty, amounting to 30% of the Iraqi population, and therefore the irregularity of the ration card pushes the poor to obtain basic commodities such as oils, rice and sugar outside the ration card.”

Saleh pointed out that “80% of the income of the poor goes to food, while the amount of what the rich and the middle class spend on food does not exceed 30% because their income is large,” noting that “the absence of a ration card would increase the area of ​​poverty in Iraq.”

He continued, “As for the anvil, it is to go to investment projects, as there are major projects in Iraq that are suspended, and their operation will add an added value to the national economy and employ thousands of workers, such as fertilizer and petrochemical projects, important factories in the oil industry and many other areas of production.”

He stressed, “The necessity of balancing the hammer of social spending and the anvil of investment spending, and this is not easy, and it must be studied intelligently and with high wisdom, and people must take their rights to a decent living, which is an important issue and at the same time ensures the sustainability of development also in the future because it is a historic opportunity for Iraq.”

Saleh pointed out that “it is expected that there will be an abundance of money available by the end of this year, amounting to 26 billion dollars and perhaps more.”

He stressed that “these resources must be employed very carefully to employ the unemployed and to create income-generating projects that employ manpower.”

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Seizure of a printing press and a device for counterfeiting the dollar and the Iraqi currency in central Baghdad

Shafaq News / A security source said, on Friday, that a printing press and a device for counterfeiting the Iraqi dollar and the Iraqi currency had been seized in the center of the capital, Baghdad.

The source told Shafaq News Agency, “A joint security force from the Baghdad police and the Federal Police, and through accurate intelligence information, managed to seize a printing press and a device for counterfeiting the Iraqi dollar and the Iraqi currency within the Karrada area in the center of the capital, Baghdad.”

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