Parliament approves nearly 25 Articles of budget law

The Iraqi Council of Representatives passed approximately twenty five articles of the federal budget law for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025 on Sunday evening before taking a half-hour break to continue the voting process.

Al-Ghadeer’s News correspondent reported from the parliament building that the passage of articles 15, 16, 17, 42, and 43, of the overall law has been postponed thus far. The parliament voted on articles 43 to 65 and will proceed with the remaining articles after the break.

The parliamentary finance committee will engage in further discussions regarding the remaining controversial articles, with the aim of presenting them for voting, including Article 15, 16, and 17 which is yet to be voted upon.