Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Parl. unanimously passes 2011 state budget

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi parliament on Sunday unanimously approved Iraq’s federal state budget for the year 2011, ending its session to convene on Monday after voting over all items in the budget, an Iraqi legislator said.

“Debates over all the items of the 2011 state budget were completed in today’s session,” Alaa Mikki, a lawmaker from al-Iraqiya bloc, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The Iraqi cabinet had approved in a session on Feb.
2 the final draft budget for the year 2011.

Mikki added that Monday’s session will see voting over a fact-finding committee on power distribution failures and another on al-Baghdadiya channel.

Ahmed al-Abbasi, a member of the National Alliance, had said on Sunday that the parliament voted over canceling all social benefits for the three top posts – the president, prime minister and parliament speaker.

He said the parliament also decided to distribute the 20% surplus from the budget over citizens in the form of grants.

“The parliament added a paragraph regarding a no-confidence vote over a minister or governor if he/she failed to accomplish 75% of the tasks to which funds were appropriated,” Abbasi noted.

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Shit, Iraq's got a budget, Libyans got fucked

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