Iraq/Kurdistan: Disagreement over KRG Share Prevents Iraq from Voting on Budget

Jan 22, 2019 | Rudaw
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Due to lack of an agreement over the share of the Kurdistan Region’s share of Iraq’s budget for 2019, the parliament in Baghdad won’t vote on the matter on Tuesday. A vote on the budget is on the parliament's schedule for Wednesday. Jamal Kochar, a Kurdish member of the parliament’s finance committee, revealed that the contentious issue is over tying the salaries of Kurdistan Region’s employees and the Peshmerga budget with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) exporting oil under the auspices of Baghdad.