Parliament held its session with Kurds absence

He added that the state of law coalition will submit a request signed by 50 MPs to discuss the budget bill today.

United Nations envoy in Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov has called the MPs to pass the annual budget that has been delayed for a long period and to approve it within the next two weeks , indicating that the delay in approving the law would negatively affect a lot of business and investments in the country.

Approving the annual budget of the state has been delayed in spite of the country enter its fourth month of the current year ; due to differences among the political blocs represented in the parliament , as observers and politicians are concerned that this issue would be exploited to delay the budget as a factor in the election campaign for some of the blocs , as the general election has only a few weeks to be conducted.