The government spokesman, Basem Al-Awadi, confirmed the existence of a government committee studying some paragraphs of the budget to take the appropriate decision regarding them, while indicating that Iraq, after approving the budget, will turn into a workshop.
Al-Awadi said to the official agency (INA), “Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani welcomed the approval of the budget, and these are indications that confirm that the government is convinced of approving the budget, but despite that he left the door open with regard to some paragraphs. The government may have another position on it through a special committee, the associated economic team with the Prime Minister,” pointing out that “the economic team will study these paragraphs and take the appropriate decision from them during the coming period.”
He added, “The overall budget that came out of Parliament is good and preserved its philosophy that the government wanted, and there are not many objections to it,” noting that “the budget provides the ministries with legal space and funds, and the next six months will be radically different in work and financing.”
He stressed that “the priority of the government program is a number of aspects that the Prime Minister insists on implementing and making them among the priorities of government work, which he made the basics of the budget and include providing services, combating poverty, combating unemployment and economic reform,” noting that “investment projects include many aspects related to housing construction and roads bridges and others, but the government’s philosophy directs investment towards priorities such as the development road that will transform Iraq into a strategic path and provide hundreds of thousands of job opportunities, in addition to Nibras Project, which is a large project that is supposed to provide one million tons annually of all types of petrochemicals, and it is part of the government’s plan to provide tens of thousands of jobs.
He added, “The investment objectives that are related to strengthening the state include strategic projects that aim to fight unemployment and provide job opportunities.”
He continued, “In the past six months, the citizen has sensed the government’s seriousness in working as much as the funds available before approving the budget, especially with regard to providing services, especially in Baghdad,” stressing that “Iraq will turn into a workshop in all governorates, and the prime minister has been waiting for the budget for a while until start implementing the actual workshops that advance all the governorates, and the next six months will be different in terms of work.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency