Maliki: Parliament is responsible for the delay in approving the budget

to retirement and privileges of the parliament and those with special grades within the Unified Retirement Law .

Maliki said in his weekly televised speech , followed by " Shafaq News " , that "the government is stopped now because the budget," noting that "there is more than one factor that caused stop in approving the budget , and the parliament is main responsible for that."

Maliki accused ( unnamed) parties of o trying to delay the budget and thwart the government for electoral purposes .

He pointed out that " all the enacted laws have been effected , including the Unified Retirement Law that has been passed recently and which did justice to this part of the community ," adding that " this law will not be implemented unless the budget would be recognized ."

Al-Maliki, wondered that "the privileges of officials are over so how did the parliament returned and placed it in the Unified Retirement Law through the paragraph and caused this crisis ? " , Calling for the need to denounce this paragraph and to speed up the approval of the budget .