Parliament calls on the government to expedite the approval of the budget law, and a deputy confirms its completion by the Ministry of Finance

Shafaq News / Independent MP, Yasser Al-Husseini announced, on Thursday, the completion of the draft budget law for the year 2023, and it will be discussed in the next cabinet session, while the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, urged the government to expedite the approval of the budget.

Al-Husseini told Shafaq News agency, “The Ministry of Finance has completed the final draft of the general budget bill for the year 2023, and it is expected to be sent to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers next week.”

He added, “Next week’s session of the Council of Ministers will witness a discussion of the budget law, and then a vote on the law and sending it to the House of Representatives.” dollars.”

In turn, the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, called on the government to expedite the submission of the budget law to the House of Representatives for a vote on it.

Al-Mandalawi’s media office stated, in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, that the latter met with Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani, to discuss a number of files and priority issues.

Al-Mandalawi stressed the need to expedite the completion of the draft budget law for the current year, and send it to the House of Representatives to include it in the agenda, read it first, and make amendments to it before submitting it to the vote, and stressing the inclusion of contract holders, lecturers, holders of higher degrees, top students, and others from various segments of society within its provisions.

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