Dhurgham Al-Maliki, a member of the Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee, revealed on Saturday that Masoud Barzani and representatives from the State Administration Coalition and the Coordination Framework discussed the oil and gas law.
“The committee discussed the draft law in a professional manner and completed the majority of its paragraphs,” Al-Maliki stated, “but the government requested its withdrawal to make amendments, indicating that the law is still in the government’s possession.”
He thought that “the oil disputes between the center and the region, indicating that the approval of the law has become an urgent necessity due to its ability to resolve 90% of the disputes between the center and the region,” was the reason “the obstruction of the approval of the annual budgets is due to the oil disputes between the center and the region.”
He demanded that “political forces to pressure the government to send the law for the purpose of legislation” and emphasized that “the legislation of the law is governed by political agreement, not professional agreement.”
