Changing the financial plan tables has generated a lot of debate in the place of delegates, following a sharply 2 trillion dinar loss from the expenditure plan.
The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers wrote to the House of Representatives asking about suspected budget table manipulation. “After looking over the printed tables attached to the Parliament’s letter signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives (acting), it became clear that there were fundamental differences in them compared to the copy sent by the Council of Ministers and opposite against the text of the parliamentary decision,” the letter said.
Member of the Parliamentary Money Panel, MP Jamal Koujar, confirmed that control followed the decision on the financial plan tables in the Parliament vault.
In a news release, he insisted on an enquiry and said he had no knowledge who had changed the tables.
Attending the Council of Representatives’ twenty-seventh session today, Monday, 199 delegates were under the direction of Mr. Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, Acting Speaker of the Council. On May 18, the Board of Agents decided on the Government General Financial Plan Regulation’s tables of the general financial plan.
Questions regarding the lack of the sum swirl around the administration of the place of delegates and the money board of trustees.
Regarding the budget plans for the current year, there were no claims of any manipulation directed against the House of Representatives Parliamentary Finance Committee.
Ahmed Mazhar, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, said, “The committee is far removed from the issue of tampering with the budget tables”. It considered the tables in line with the government’s CD and presented them for a vote under the House of Representatives Presidency.
“The public authority’s rising of the issue of messing with 2 trillion dinars in the spending plan tables, as per its case, is exceptionally amazing,” he said.
“In the event that there is messing with the spending plan tables, the Speaker of the Place of Agents can be addressed.” he said.
When the Parliamentary Finance Committee set up an investigating committee in favour of clearing its yard, the Iraqi Parliament Presidency was enraged.
Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee Moeen Al-Kazemi voiced his astonishment at the Parliament Presidency’s resistance to creating an enquiry committee looking at the budgetary revisions.
Al-Kadhimi said, “The development of an insightful council is the power of the Money Board of trustees, communicating his lament at the Parliament Administration’s issue with the arrangement of the panel, which doesn’t need endorsement.”
He said, “The Finance Committee is inquiring about the reason for the difference in the budget tables between the parliamentary version and the government version, noting that the committee has asked the relevant authorities to reveal the manipulation of the numbers.”
Furthermore, Mohammed Al-Ziyadi, MP for the State Support Bloc, confirmed that sufficient signatures were gathered to include a paragraph outlining the government’s assertion that several variations of the budget tables had been voted on.
Al-Ziyadi said, “The administration submitted a letter to the House of Representatives saying that the tables supplied to it by the parliament differ from those it sent to the parliament.”
“This book produced a confusing environment between Parliament and the government,” he said. “Parliamentary signatures were gathered to include a paragraph to discuss the issue in order to decide the truth of the dispute between Parliament and the government regarding the schedules and who was behind it.” He also said.
