Acting Speaker of the Council of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, confirmed that the budget law tables that were approved by the Council of Representatives in its approval session are the same ones that the Council of Ministers sent to the Council of Representatives without any amendment, and that the aforementioned tables are the same ones that were sent to the government after approval, indicating that the Council Presidency has formed a higher committee to examine the circumstances raised regarding the subject and determine its truth.
Al-Mandlawi said in a statement today, Wednesday, regarding what was recently raised by some media outlets regarding the existence of additions to the budget tables for the year 2024, that the House of Representatives, in its session numbered (27) held on June 3, 2024, approved the estimates of the tables of the Federal General Budget Law for the year 2024 and its attachments, tables (A, B, C, D, E, F) and the deficit financing table as received from the Council of Mini
sters without any amendment or additions, with the latter being authorized to transfer allocations of (2) trillion Iraqi dinars to the governorates not organized in a region and distributed according to population and poverty rates, and this is confirmed by our parliamentary decision No. (64) for the year 2024, a copy of which is attached.
He continued that in order to confirm that ‘no amended version was adopted, we reissued a letter from the House of Representatives / Office of the President No. (616) on 7/21/2024, a copy of which is attached, and sent to the Council of Ministers / Office of the President, which clearly indicated (approval of the estimates of the budget law tables and its attachments from the above-mentioned tables with the aforementioned deficit financing table as well as the right to transfer with the same proven amount, which is (2) trillion, referring to a paragraph included in the same letter that clearly confirms (that the parliamentary decision included the adoption of the tables se
nt by the Council of Ministers, which were approved in the session held without any additions.’
Al-Mandlawi confirmed his follow-up to all inaccurate talks published and broadcast by some media outlets, and any party that tries to mislead public opinion by concealing the facts and dishonestly transmitting the facts, to achieve illegitimate goals far from the honesty of neutral transmission and objectivity that it should possess, will be subject to legal accountability.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency