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Confirmed Iraqi political parties representing blocs parliamentary different that it "will not pass the draft budget for fiscal 2019 law because of poor financial allocations for Bmhafezadtha in addition to raising the tax level on citizens dramatically," while the Iraqi government announced that it approved the "budget of 2019 to $ 108 billion and a deficit of 19 Billion. "

The Sunni blocs included in the coalition of the draft budget law for the next year as "do not do justice to their provinces," while the Kurds expressed their opposition to the share of the Kurdistan region.

And warned political parties of the return of differences and the intersection between the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government because of the share of the province of the budget for the year 2019.

The Iraqi government confirmed that it "approved the draft financial budget for 2019 and referred it to Parliament for discussion and approval."


The government said in a brief press statement received "home" a copy of it that the Council of Ministers approved the draft federal budget law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2019 and forwarded to the House of Representatives.

According to the draft project, the volume of financial expenditures in the draft budget amounted to 128.4 trillion Iraqi dinars, "about 108 billion dollars," a financial deficit of 22.8 trillion dinars about 19 billion dollars.

The rate of export of oil per day by 3 million and 880 thousand barrels, including 250 thousand barrels per day of the quantities of crude oil produced in the provinces of the North, at $ 56 per barrel.

The draft also states that "the fiscal deficit will be covered by the financial abundance of increased crude oil prices or an increase in oil exports by 2019".

In the same context, the MP said about moving block, Magda Tamimi, said that "a lot of changes will take place on the federal budget for the year 2019 before returning to the government early next week," stressing "the need to achieve a specific plan for economic and social development goals."

"We expect to make many adjustments to the budget of 2019 after returning to the government at the beginning of next week to add the vision of the new government according to the government program that was voted on," Tamimi said in a press statement.

"The budget reflects the government's vision of how to handle the state's resources for a future financial year in order to achieve specific objectives within the framework of the General Plan of Economic and Social Development."

Tamimi pointed out that "the budget will change and can not comment on them without receiving them formally and after making amendments to be consistent with the vision of the new government."

He stressed alliance decision in a press statement "home" received a copy of it as a "feel shocked at what is made for the provinces of the task, such as Nineveh, Anbar, Salahuddin and Diyala, a which got burned by fire state regulation" Daesh "and became citizens between displaced people and martyrs and wounded, and seen The ruins of his city and his home are defenseless from any support or hope to change the situation. "

He said the alliance in his statement "must be a real effort and money monitors to achieve change and feel the citizen that his country and his government stand firmly with him after what they suffered from the horrors, stressing the need to reconsider the budget to take the tragedies of citizens in Nineveh and other provinces."

The coalition of the resolution that "will resort to constitutional and legal methods to respond to the budget does not do justice to citizens."

For his part, MP Dana Mohammed Jaza from the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani that "the formula sent by the draft federal budget is unfair to the Kurdish people and the Kurdistan region."

He said Jaza in a press statement that "the draft talked about the provinces of northern Iraq and the names of Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah, and not of the Kurdistan region, while the Constitution speaks openly about all regions, and confirms that Iraq is a federal federal."

He added that "the other matter relates to the allocation of 12.6% for the region, while the political agreements for previous years 17% until the census."


And threatened to MP Mansour Baaja alliance building, led by Hadi al-Ameri said in a press statement "home" received a copy of it "to prevent passing the budget if it does not include the allocation of funds to the province of Babylon, different from the current year's budget," stressing "to claim the rights of the people of Babylon marginalized from the government Which has not been fair to its province since the fall of the former regime. "

"The percentage of Kurdistan 12% remains the same in the budget of 2019 without any change, and this may raise the anger of the Kurdish forces as I did before, but the ratio gave them according to constitutional and demographic merit."

Al-Fayez said in a press statement that "the Kurdish forces to abide by what is issued by the federal government and move away from the policy of armaments through the boycott of meetings all issues can be resolved and reach results through dialogues under the roof of the Iraqi constitution."

The alliance, "Asron," supported by the leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr, the return of differences between Baghdad and Erbil on the budget in 2019, the matter very much.

Said Alliance MP Burhan al-Mamouri said in a press statement "home" received a copy of "2019 budget may restore differences between Baghdad and Erbil because of the region the proportion of the general budget of the Iraqi state, but must resolve the dispute according to the constitution without making any concessions on the supreme interest of the country account" .

He added Mamouri "in the event of disagreement came back again between Baghdad and Erbil, we will have a role in the convergence of views between the two sides, and we will work on the application of the Iraqi constitution, and we refuse to give anything outside the constitution and the powers of the federal Iraqi government."

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