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    PM Abadi decreases KRG's budget share even further from all-time low, MP



    PM Abadi decreases KRG's budget share even further from all-time low, MP


    BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has decreased the KRG’s share of the Iraqi budget for 2018 even further from the all-time low since 2003, a Kurdish MP of the Iraqi parliament has claimed.

    Masoud Haider, a Gorran MP, told Rudaw Sunday that PM Abadi has sent a revised budget bill to the Iraqi parliament that would decrease the KRG’s share by about 50 billion Iraqi dinars ($42.6 million).

    The Kurdish MPs once again on Sunday boycotted an Iraqi parliament session when the parliament wanted to include the second reading of the budget bill at last minute.

    Salim al-Jabouri, the Iraqi parliament speaker, has confirmed that the Iraqi Federal Government has made changes to the bill, but did not give details as to whether it included changes to the budget.

    The Kurdistan Region requests the Iraqi parliament to allocate 17 percent of the budget as was the case since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, a demand opposed by PM Abadi, who argues that Erbil is entitled to no more than 12.6 percent from Iraq's overall budget.

    Kurdish MPs have already rejected the 12.6 percent argument, and with today’s announcement, they are more disappointed than ever.

    Haider who sits on the finance committee of the Iraqi parliament told Rudaw that they were “surprised” by the new change made to the bill.

    “This shows that Abadi wants to make problems and complications so that the bill would not pass,” Haider claimed.

    PM Abadi has said on more than one occasion that the bill has to pass at the earliest time possible.

    The Kurdish MPs have tried to pressure Abadi to listen to the International Monetary Fund’s recommendation that 12.6 percent is not sufficient to cover the needs of the people in the Kurdistan Region for 2018.

    Abadi attended a January 31 session of parliament that was boycotted by all Kurdish factions. After the session, the prime minister met with a delegation of Kurdish MPs, but he refused to amend the bill.

    Three Kurdish MPs, including Haider, in the Iraqi parliament had their membership suspended for 15 days and salaries cut for these days after they blocked the parliament from its second reading of the budget bill last week.

    A concern of the Kurdish representatives is that the current funds allocated to the Kurdistan Region “does not suffice for even one province,” Kurdish MP Arafat Karam pointed out, according to the parliament’s statement on Monday’s session.

    Article Credit: https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/110220182



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    Re: PM Abadi decreases KRG's budget share even further from all-time low, MP

    BGG ~ Like I said - it will get done. However, the Kurds have been asking for way more than they have coming... on top of smuggling oil and splitting it with Maliki. This has to stop.

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    Re: PM Abadi decreases KRG's budget share even further from all-time low, MP

    BGG ~ I think this is their "the gig is up..." - message to the Kurds. The Kurds wouldn't need to ask for vastly inflated numbers if both the Barzanis and Maliki weren't still filching smuggled oil profits from the Kurdish territories. They would have all they need.

    Do you really think all this re-taking of the oil fields and recent MASSIVE embargoes on Kurdistan was just about reigning them in politically?? I don't think so. IMHO, this was about attacking Maliki's cash flow - cutting off the money first.

    Message sent.

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