Between acceptance and rejection… Will the House of Representatives succeed in passing the budget?
Information / Report… Despite the emergence of major objections to the budget tables, to reduce the budget of the governorates, especially the central and southern ones, the general atmosphere inside the House of Representatives indicates that these tables will be voted on next Monday.
It is noteworthy that the 2024 budget amounted to 211 trillion dinars, while last year’s budget amounted to 199 trillion dinars.
The 2024 budget tables were subjected to controversy and criticism by many members of the House of Representatives, because they reduced the governorates’ budget and gave it to the ministries, as some members announced that they would not vote on the budget in its current form.
Independent MP Mustafa Sanad published a table showing the percentage of budget completion by ministries and governorates.
The table shows that the governorates’ achievement rate is higher than the ministries.
Sanad commented on the table, saying, “They punished the governorates and funded the ministries, under the pretext that they did not spend their money.”
He called for “noting the numbers in the table.” However, some representatives saw that objection to the schedules was nothing but an attempt to disrupt the budget.
This is what MP Hussein Habib warned against, who revealed attempts by some to disrupt the vote on the 2024 budget.
Habib told “Al-Ma’louma” that, “The Presidency of the House of Representatives has set the day after tomorrow, Monday, as the date for presenting the 2024 budget schedules for a vote on it, pointing out that it is an important budget.” To finance projects, resume work on lagging projects, and provide important services in all governorates.
He added, “There are three challenges facing the 2024 budget schedules, the most prominent of which are the attempts of some to obstruct any signs of stability and the start of reconstruction, and the attempt to set irresponsible conditions that want to return based on what happened in past years of wasting public money, obstructing projects, and manifestations of failure, some of which are still evident through a huge amount.” Of the stalled and delayed projects.
He pointed out that “voting on the budget will increase the pace of the government’s implementation of its program, pointing out that the budget is a national matter that must be prevented from any interference in order to exploit it by any party.”
Today, Saturday, the Parliamentary Finance Committee resumed its meeting to write and read the budget schedules report.|
A brief statement from the committee received by “Al-Maalouma” stated, “The meeting is in preparation for voting on the agendas within the committee before submitting them to the presidency of the council.”
A member of the Finance Committee, Moeen Al-Kazemi, revealed to Al-Ma’louma that the committee will complete its observations today on the schedules that it will submit today to the Presidency of the Council.
Meanwhile, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Moeen Al-Kadhimi, announced that the committee will approve the budget schedules, in preparation for submitting them to a vote during the House of Representatives session next Monday.
Al-Kadhimi told Al-Maalouma, “The committee will hold a meeting today to finalize its decision on the budget schedules, before submitting them to a vote.”
He stressed, “The committee will submit its report today or tomorrow to the Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Nadalawi, to present it to a vote during its session next Monday.”
According to these repercussions, it appears that the percentage of those who agreed to pass the budget was much higher than those who objected to its schedules.
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