Baghdad: Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, announced that the budget tables will reach Parliament after the legislative recess. Al-Atwani said, “The vote on the budget tables within Parliament will not exceed June 9th due to the legislative recess,” noting that “the budget is approximately 210 trillion, divided between an operating budget of approximately 155 trillion and an investment budget of 55 trillion, with a deficit of 66 trillion dinars.”

According to National Iraqi News Agency, Al-Atwani added, “Our planned course for discussing the budget and studying these tables is to review their contents and study them in detail,” noting that “the first ministers to attend to discuss the budget will be the Minister of Finance, followed by the Minister of Planning.”

Al-Atwani continued, “The approved mechanism for distributing the investment budget amounts among ministries and governorates is studied and analyzed, after which the report is written and submitted to the House of Representatives, and then the budget tables are presented with the report to the House for a vote.” He emphasized “the committee’s keenness to complete the task as soon as possible, considering that we voted on a three-year budget so that the government can operate comfortably and not disrupt the tables.”