THE 2025 BUDGET SCHEDULES WILL BE FINALIZED BY THE END OF MAY.

THE 2025 BUDGET SCHEDULES WILL BE FINALIZED BY THE END OF MAY.

MP Baqir Al-Saadi stressed that “the existence of 2025 budget schedules is important to ensure project funding and provide financial support for local governments, enabling them to proceed with implementing service projects across all sectors.”

Al-Saadi indicated in a press interview seen by (Al-Masry Al-Youm, Sunday 5/11/2025) that “the 2025 budget schedules will be decided by the end of this May.”

He said, “Despite talk of the possibility of postponing the budget resolution until after the November 2025 elections, there are indications that the budget schedules may be finalized by the end of this month . Thus, after the end of the legislative recess, the parliament will have the opportunity to finalize it or hold extraordinary sessions to discuss and vote on it.”

He explained that “the delay in finalizing these schedules and the Cabinet’s failure to send them to the Parliamentary Finance Committee for review before submitting them to the Parliament Presidency for a vote has negative repercussions on the funding of service projects in ministries and local governments.”

(Kind of weird how they worded this last statement since the Finance Committee is part of Al Sudani’s cabinet. Do these reporters even know how the government is structured?)