Parliamentary Finance Committee reveals the “impacts” of the population census on “provincial budgets”
Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, MP Jamal Kojer, confirmed on Tuesday that the population census will re-budget all governorates, indicating that the results of the census will be adopted in the budget if it is completed before the budget is prepared.
Kocher said in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, “It is supposed to re-prepare the budget of all governorates, including the governorates of the Kurdistan Region, based on the population census on the one hand, on the resources on the other hand, and on the sensitivity of the region on the third hand.”
He added, “There are governorates with high population density and therefore they must be taken into consideration in the upcoming budget. There are some governorates that lack resources or have resources, and these resources have social and health implications. Some governorates have a strategic dimension, for example Basra, Baghdad and Erbil, or some are gateways for the state with other countries.”
He stressed that “the population census will have its effects in the next budget if the budget is prepared after the completion of the population census. However, if it is not completed, it will be postponed to the 2026 budget to adopt the census results.”
Shafaq.com