KTFA Members "News and Views" Thursday AM 12-5-19

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Samson:  Parliament holds an evening session tomorrow (today)

12/4/2019 21:52

The Parliament will hold an evening session tomorrow, Thursday.

The Director General of the Parliamentary Chamber in a statement received by the agency (Euphrates News) a copy of it "attributed the presidency of the Council to hold a meeting on Thursday at 4 pm."

Parliament was scheduled to hold its regular session on Tuesday but was postponed to complete discussion of the legal committee, parliamentary blocs and UNAMI experts on the bills of the House and Electoral Commission elections.   LINK

2Cents:  Very Interesting start time especially on a Thursday.........

HoosierGirl:  I'm thinking maybe they aren't "running the show" and somebody else is cracking the whip!!! 

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Don961:   Abdul Mahdi announced the transformation of his government to the caretaker

Wednesday 04 December 2019

Baghdad / Al-Sabah / Muhannad Abdul Wahab

 Outgoing Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced the transformation of the government to a caretaker government daily, while the parliamentary legal committee confirmed that the President of the Republic performs the functions of the resigned Prime Minister until the assignment of another person within a period of not more than 15 days Article 81 of the Constitution.

Abdul-Mahdi said in a televised speech followed by "morning" yesterday: "The political blocs have to expedite the selection of a new prime minister," noting that "the demonstrations a good and great event and triggered crises exist in the country and warned everyone that there are demands did not hear the required form."

Abdul Mahdi said that "there is a need for great public pressure to restore things to the right", pointing out that "the government will send to parliament the final accounts of the budgets of previous years."

Meanwhile, member of the parliamentary legal committee, Bahar Mahmoud, "Article 81 of the Constitution requires that in the event of the vacancy of the post of Prime Minister that the President of the Republic for a period of 15 days, provided that another person to form a government during this period in accordance with Article 76 of the Constitution."

Meanwhile, the head of the Bareq al-Khair bloc, which is part of the victory coalition, Mohammed al-Khalidi, told "morning", that more than 130

A signature submitted by deputies from the various political blocs of the President of the Republic specifies the prime minister's specifications conforming to the demands of the demonstrators, indicating that these signatures represent a "veto" on any political bloc puts a personality does not match the specifications required by the Prime Minister.     LINK

Don961:  An official source for : imminent verdicts in 8 thousand file corruption

Wednesday 04 December 2019

Baghdad / Omar Abdul Latif

 The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption has completed 8 thousand corruption cases out of 12 thousand, while the spokesman for the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Dr. Saad Al-Hadithi, that it can not undo the fight against corruption and take serious and concrete steps towards the prosecution of corrupt and open files and take legal judicial decisions Accused.

The Hadithi told "morning", that "after the formation of the Special Court for felonies corruption Became central to the fight against corruption, the court formed investigative judicial bodies in all courts of appeal, which in turn issued orders to arrest, bring and prevent travel and seizure of funds, also sentenced to prison sentences later a number of former officials And the present. "

Observer member of the Supreme Council for Combating Corruption Said Yassin Moussa said in a statement to "morning": "There are 12 thousand investigative files related to corruption cases, has been coordinated on the finalization of 8 thousand files by the Integrity Commission and the Council of Justice and Prosecution, to issue judgments, and there Four thousand investigative files are still being worked on to finalize them in coordination with the Judicial Council, stressing that "the majority of the recent files are disabled because of ministers or officials Direct. "

For his part, a member of the Integrity Committee in the House of Representatives Jawad Hamdan al-Saadi, "the formation of a committee to follow up the cases and files of corruption in the Integrity Commission," stressing that "the next stage will see the detection and accountability of all corrupt to get their just punishment."    LINK

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Samson:  For the first time since 2014 .. the region delivers its oil to Baghdad and announces important details

5th December, 2019

The Minister of Finance in the Kurdistan Regional Government Awat Sheikh Janab on Thursday announced the delivery of the federal government in Baghdad 250 thousand barrels of crude oil per day, in the first time since 2014.

"We have decided to deliver 250,000 barrels of oil per month per month to Baghdad," Sheikh Janab said at a joint news conference with provincial council secretary Amang Rahim and chief of the provincial council of ministers Omid Sabah. "We have agreed on a formula on the payment of loans," he said, adding that "most of the Kurds' demands have been met."

He pointed out that "we reached an agreement with Baghdad on the budget and oil," pointing out that "reducing the share of the Kurdistan region in the financial budget was a political decision unfortunately." "Our negotiations this time with Baghdad have been successful," he said, stressing that "if Baghdad abides by the agreement, there will be no problems with the payment of salaries." He continued that "the ball now in the court of the Iraqi parliament with regard to the budget," stressing that the Kurdistan region will abide by the agreement we reached with Baghdad.

For his part, Secretary of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Region Amang Rahim that the region will contribute to raising financial revenues for Iraq in accordance with the agreement reached with the federal government on the budget and oil.  Rahim added that the federal budget for 2020 is still in the process of legislation. He said that the Kurdistan region will contribute to increase financial revenues for Iraq in accordance with the agreement reached with Baghdad, stressing that the recent agreement is in the interest of both sides.

He added that "Iraq borrowed 62 billion dollars and part of it has nothing to do with the Kurdistan region." He pointed out that the region will provide Baghdad with information about the debt of the Kurdistan region, noting that the debt of the region will be installed in the financial budget for next year. Rahim said there was an understanding between Arbil and Baghdad about the debt.   LINK

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Samson:  Kurdistan Regional Government: We will contribute to increase the financial revenues of Iraq

5th December, 2019

The Secretary of the Kurdistan Regional Council, Amang Rahim, confirmed on Thursday that the region will contribute to raising financial revenues for Iraq according to the agreement he reached with the federal government on budget and oil.

Rahim said in a joint press conference held with the Minister of Finance Awat Sheikh Janab, and the head of the Cabinet Office of the Region Omid Sabah that the federal fiscal budget for 2020 is still in the process of legislation  

He added that the Kurdistan region will contribute to increase financial revenues for Iraq in accordance with the agreement we reached with Baghdad, stressing that the recent agreement is in the interest of both sides.

"Iraq has borrowed $ 62 billion, part of which has nothing to do with the Kurdistan region," he said.

He pointed out that the region will provide Baghdad with information about the debt of the Kurdistan Region, noting that the region's debt will be fixed in the financial budget for the next year.

Rahim said there was an understanding between Erbil and Baghdad about the debt.  LINK

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Samson:  Deputy confirms the existence of a parliamentary consensus on the passage of the Electoral Commission Act

10:11 - 05/12/2019

A member of the Front for Correction and Change Parliamentary Abbas Jaber Al-Atafi, Thursday, that today's session will see the vote on the Electoral Commission Act, pointing to the existence of a parliamentary consensus to pass the law.

Al-Atafi said in a statement to the information, that "the agenda of today's meeting will include the inclusion of the Electoral Commission law, as well as the presence of demands to include the election law to vote on them in today's meeting." He added, "All views and proposals on the Commission's law was completed with the will of the people," noting that "there is a parliamentary consensus to pass the law in today's meeting, which will be held in the afternoon."

Al-Atafi pointed out that "the Legal Committee continues until the moment the maturity of the election law before submitting it to vote."   LINK