Al-Kadhimi to hold a special session to approve the budget law

Shafaq News / Ahmed Mulla Talal, spokesman for Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, announced that the latter had directed to hold a special session to discuss and approve the 2020 federal budget.

 Mulla Talal said in a tweet that the session will take place at the beginning of next week.

 The spokesman for the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Haider Majid, told Shafaq News agency on Sunday that it had received the special budget for the remainder of the year 2020, by the Ministry of Finance, to be discussed and sent to the House of Representatives.

 The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Haitham Al-Jubouri, revealed to Shafaq News agency that the draft budget law will be limited to the months of September, October, first and second, and December.

 Iraq has not passed the federal budget law for the current year as a result of the protests crisis that has swept the country since October 2019 and toppled the previous government.

 Mustafa Al-Kazemi's government faced difficulties in preparing the budget project at a time when the country was suffering from a stifling financial crisis, caused by the collapse of oil prices in world markets.