SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Iraqi Council of Representatives is set to convene next Thursday to vote on a three-year federal budget bill, according to the chamber’s agenda released on Tuesday.
Iraq’s Council of Ministers in mid-March approved the federal budget bill for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The country suffered from a lack of budget in 2022 due to political conflicts that emerged following October 2021 election to form a government.
Under the Iraqi constitution, the Kurdistan Region is also entitled to a portion of the national budget. But the arrangement collapsed in 2014 when the Kurds began selling crude independently from Kurdistan.
The Finance Committee in Iraq’s parliament made changes to articles 13 and 14 of the federal budget draft last month.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), recently said it opposed changes in the draft Iraqi federal budget that infringe on the rights of the Kurdish people.
KRG called the changes in the draft budget, introduced by members of the parliament’s finance committee, unconstitutional and “inconsistent with the agreement signed between the regional government and the federal government”.
