The vice-chairman of the Finance Commission of the Kurdistan Region Parliament said the Kurdistan Regional Government does not rely on the budget provided by the federal government in Baghdad.
Iraq’s supreme court recently ruled that the autonomous part of northern Iraq cannot conduct oil deals independent of the federal government, resulting in significant tension.
An Iraqi MP from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) bloc the KDP’s precondition on joining the federal government in Baghdad was that the federal government not violate the rights of the Kurdistan Region.