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MPs and experts: the increase called for by al-Maliki on the budget needed "guarantees"

BAGHDAD - Iraq votes 15 / 05 / 2008 at 22:15:51



The view of deputies and experts are Iraqis, that the increase called for by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on a balance in 2008, to set up projects aimed at revitalizing the Iraqi economy, will contribute to accelerating economic development in Iraq in case there safeguards to reduce the financial impact of corruption on the completion of the proposed projects.

While challenged the constitutionality of the proposal, Vice-Maliki, a legal expert said that the proposal unconstitutional and can not be appealed.
In the opinion of the Chairman of the Integrity Commission in Parliament this morning helped, that the initiative made by Maliki "unconstitutional" because the House of Representatives is "possesses the right proposing increases in the budget, not the government."

The al-Maliki had submitted to parliament last Monday, includes an increase of five billion dollars in 2008 budget to cover the work of strategic projects, achieve a kind of progress in the reconstruction process throughout Iraq, especially the education sector, which adversely affected because of the policies of the former regime, according to Maliki.

He adds helps told (Voices of Iraq) that "financial and administrative corruption a major barrier to be drawn to him, as the government exhausted the budget allocated for the period is 13 billion years, but no assurances from the hand of corruption there are many irregularities in this area."
His helped al-Maliki, saying that "it pointed out that the exchange would be within a five-year plan, but the government was not staying until the end of that period." He wondered "guarantee mechanism of the exchange after the away leg of this government and the advent of another government." He explained that the parliament is now working on a study which "guarantee the payment of such amount."

The presidency has been transmitted Parliament last Monday, al-Maliki's proposal to the Finance Committee in Parliament, in addition to the Committee on Economy and Investment Services Committee, to study the economic projects put forward by the government, and make appropriate recommendations around.

And contrary to legal expert Tariq Harb, MP helped al-Maliki on the constitutionality of the proposal, as it believes that the proposal was "OK with the Constitution" justified this by saying, "the law governing financial matters as stipulated by the Constitution, this application contains an additional budget, and therefore the power to approve this request be issued by the Law House of Representatives, especially since the justification of this demand is realistic rather than the existence of the amounts stated in the Budget Law, and must therefore determine the expenditure of these amounts Law. "

He adds that war Iraqi constitution "did not talk about the five-year plan, but its annual plan and the law of the budget is for one year only and does not extend to other years, but the parliament can decide that these amounts will be monitored for five years." He expressed his belief that that I do not think that these sums will be several years because the urgent need to jumpstart the economy of Iraq quickly disbursed during this fiscal year. "
He said the independent MP and former Minister of Planning Mahdi Al-Hafiz, the project made by Maliki of Parliament "is a program of parallel programmes Iraqi ministries, but it is carried out by the private sector and some government agencies that need arises for this."

He added Hafiz, in his speech to the Independent News Agency (Voices of Iraq) that "the important point in this project is to ensure that deficiencies are overcome gaps in the performance of the state, particularly the inability to implement its projects, at the same time, more than bureaucracy and red tape, which makes him the need Very badly. "

Hafiz described the programme as "extraordinary programme, aims at setting up strategic projects in many areas, particularly with regard to creating jobs and combating unemployment and repair infrastructure, including road repairs, bridges, ports and airports and upgrading services." He explained that these "are the priorities of work to be created."

He continued, speaking about Al-Hafiz guarantees the implementation of the project in light of talk about the existence of financial corruption that accompanied the earlier draft, that safeguards "are available through the strengthening of financial control, is that provide transparency and accountability and to prosecute any defects occur, and this is crucial to the success of this project, the success of this project is intimately Directly providing mechanisms that would fight corruption and provide safety performance. "

The Custodian of the amount demanded by al-Maliki to finance projects, "will be charged if the parliament's approval by oil revenues, but needed to monitor the amount greater than five billion." That justification that this project "is a prelude to the establishment of the Iraqi reconstruction, working in parallel to the Ministries of State."

A spokesman for the Iraqi government, said at the end of March last March, said that his government intends to issue a supplementary budget end of June next June to add the amount of five billion dollars for the 2008 budget amounting to 48 billion dollars, due to increased income in Iraq remained high prices of crude oil "

For his part, said economic expert Hossam Osama, that the main points that could be impounded on a proposal Maliki, "is that the budgets of 2006 and 2007, has won the large amounts of surplus hit 36 billion dollars, due to lack of absorptive capacity for projects all the ministries and governorates, To the extent that some of those bodies have not spent only 10% of the amounts allocated to them. "

A number of deputies, during the meeting held last Monday, expressed their reservations about the proposal Maliki, as stressed deputy coalition and leadership in the Supreme Islamic Council, Jalal Din Saghir, that "the Iraqi people deserve to have acted him large sums, but Parliament also need to be reassured . "

He adds Sam told (Voices of Iraq) that is concerned with economic affairs, "absorptive capacity available through devices capable of implementing such projects, because it is clear that many organs at the ministries were not eligible for the implementation of giant projects." This requires, according to Sam "Cadres capable of providing achievement and Cadres not capable of spending, because the increased value of five billion dollars on the budget could be a positive factor in the development of effective economic realities of production and management of the wheel again, subject to the availability of Cadres, or absorptive capacities of accomplishment . "

He disclosed that Osama Finance Ministry "has already demanded" by adding five billion dollars added benefits of the oil surplus, due to increased oil prices and obtain a surplus in the state budget. "Indicating that perhaps this is what al-Maliki to pay additional claims to investment projects, and hoped to contribute to this Increase "the development of the Iraqi economy needs to develop and comprehensive development."

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