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The Cabinet approved a recommendation to the House of Representatives to amend the draft law on public holidays.
“The amendment provides for the addition of 12/25 of each year a public holiday on the occasion of the birthday of Jesus Christ,” the Cabinet Secretariat said in a statement.
The statement added that “the law was sent to the House of Representatives by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, and includes another amendment to consider the day of liberation of the land of Iraq from the gangs Da’ash terrorist corresponding to the tenth of December the National Day of the Republic of Iraq, and an official holiday of each year.