The Presidency of the Republic objected to the publication of the Financial Budget Law 2018, in the Official Gazette.

In a letter to the Ministry of Justice, the Director of the Office of the President of the Republic, Nizar Mohammed Said, said that "the ratification and issuance of draft laws is through the Presidency of the Republic, based on the provisions of item {III} of Article {73} of the Constitution and therefore the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers Or the Iraqi facts department to grant any issued legislation. "

He added that "the Secretariat General of the Council of Ministers, writing to you the publication of the Federal Budget Law for the year 2018, is a clear violation of the provisions of the Constitution and the law of publication in the Official Gazette No. 78 of 1977, and the body that publishes the law without notice of this presidency legal accountability.

Said expressed his hope that the ministry "to approach the Iraqi facts not to publish the law mentioned in the Official Gazette unless it is notified of the publication of the Presidency of the Republic."

The President of the Republic Fuad Masum, announced on 13 March, the re-draft the federal budget bill for the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2018 and voted by the Council on 3/3/2018, to the House of Representatives to re-examine the form and content of the constitutional, legal and financial, Noting that there are about 31 points intersect with the legislation in force. "The

Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri that the draft budget law became a law after the vote by the Council and any remarks can be fixed on the origin of the law and challenged in the Federal Court.


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