Expectations to postpone the session of parliament today .. The three presidencies meet tomorrow to discuss the budget

Journal News February 28, 2018

Announced a Kurdish deputy from the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives that the three Iraqi presidencies will meet to discuss the issue of the draft law of the Iraqi budget for the year 2018.

A member of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Massoud Haider, a statement that is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Thursday, 2018, presidencies of the Council of Ministers and the Republic and the House of Representatives to discuss the draft bill for the Iraqi general budget for 2018, and said, “It will be impossible to pass the bill without holding that meeting.”

Haidar also pointed out that the three presidencies are trying to reach a compromise on the draft bill of the Iraqi general budget for 2018, accepted by the three parties Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish, and said: “This is not impossible, where the bill can be amended to meet the demands of the three parties.”

Sources expected to postpone the meeting today to tomorrow waiting for the outcome of the meeting of presidencies

The project of the Iraqi general budget for 2018, which was approved in the Council of Ministers of Iraq on the fifth of November 2017, reduced the share of the Kurdistan Region from 17% to 12.67%, and the project did not mention the name of the Kurdistan Regional Government and used instead the term government of the provinces of Kurdistan, Kurdish officials say they are trying to avoid recognition of the Kurdistan Regional Government. To solve this problem, Kurdish deputies continue their efforts to reach a solution, and want to increase the share of the province to reach ten trillion dinars.

Article Credit: aljournal.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)