Iraq’s Kurdish government on Thursday rejected a ruling through Iraq’s court that blocked bills from state coffers that fund the semi-autonomous region.
Jutiar Adel, spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, said in a statement that “the illegal ruling of an illegitimate court will have an effect on mutual understanding” between the Kurdish government in northeastern Iraq and the central government in Baghdad. .
Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a ruling invalidating a series of decisions across Baghdad to move the budget to the KRG to pay salaries in 2021 and 2022, arguing that the measures violated Iraq’s 2021 budget law and were unconstitutional.
The resolution came in reaction to a lawsuit filed by Mustafa Sanad, an independent lawmaker allied with Iraq’s ruling coalition of predominantly Shiite parties subsidized through Iran, and the governor of Iraq’s eastern Wasit province. monetary hemorrhage. “
The ruling is final. It casts doubt on the long-term payment of salaries and on the fragile relationship between the Kurdish regional government and Baghdad.
Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region, said in one that the resolution “is not only aimed at public workers and other people of Kurdistan who are Iraqi citizens, but also at the entire political process and stability. “
A KRG official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it is not legal for him to speak about the matter publicly, said “the KRG will be in talks with the federal government to find a way to restore normalcy. “
If those talks fail, he said, “the other people in the Kurdistan Region will be the victims. “
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