Reduce the salaries of presidencies will provide 70 billion dinars per year of 5 thousand employees

07/22/2015 22:33



Long-Presse / Baghdad

MPs and politicians predicted that leads the Cabinet's decision to reduce the allocations of the three presidencies and special grades to provide 70 billion dinars annually general budget.

This decision which met with mixed reactions, within the political blocs, seeks to reduce the more than five thousand people allocations, including MPs, ministers and members of the Department of the three presidencies.

The Cabinet decided, in Tuesday's session, reducing the prime minister and his deputies' salaries by 50% and the allocation of agents ministers and advisers and those with special grades of 40%.

He says Masood Haider, a member of the parliamentary finance committee, said that "the Cabinet's recent decision, which will reduce the allocations of the three presidencies, will provide about 70 billion dinars annually general budget and nearly 20 billion dinars during the remaining four months of the fiscal year."

Haider said that "the number of the three presidencies staff up to about 3,000 employees added to them in 2000 and general manager of 40 ministers and 328 parliamentarians and rank shall be fixed, all of them Ciecmlon reduction procedures."

He stressed that "Iraq needs to schedule real action to implement the austerity measures save a lot of money to the state."

The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in 11 of July of this, called, to reduce the senior officials' salaries to achieve the principle of social solidarity while invited several political blocs, including the citizen and the Liberals, for example -Your Alhsr-, to promote his initiative to prepare a draft law and send it to parliament .

In the meantime, a consultant in the House of Representatives reveals the size of allocations charged by the three presidencies staff and who are the rank of Deputy Minister and Director General, he says it was "hit nominal salaries in four outcome".

It explains adviser, who spoke on the "long" on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the subject, that "nominal salary received by directors general of 2.5 million dinars multiplied four times to up to 10 million is a monthly allowance paid by the State of Iraq for them."

Parliamentary Counsel points out that "this applies to members of the House of Representatives who reach the nominal salaries to nine million dinars and allowances hit in four," stressing "the lack of fairness in the distribution of these provisions."

The attention of the broad access to the source that "ministers, MPs and general managers and agents ministries paid three million dinars per month housing allowances which are not covered by the reduction procedures."

According to the Cabinet decision, the salary of a member of the House of Representatives will be determined by the minister after the salary reduction, in addition to the reduction of allocations agents ministers and advisers and those with special grades and salaries of general managers and their grade and earn their salary by 40%.

Parliamentary Counsel believes that "only affected by these measures are the only junior staff", adding that "the salaries par for those that did not exceed one million dinars", calling on the government to "develop specific standards dominated by efficiency and equity in the distribution of salaries and allowances and deductions."

In turn, confirms the Attorney Jawad al-Bolani, Chairman of the Economic Committee, said that "the need has become urgent to make fundamental changes to reduce the ministries and state institutions to provide the budget deficit."

He said al-Bolani, told the "long", that "the government's measures to reduce the allocations of the three presidencies important step to initiate certain reforms followed by other steps to implement the federal government's program."

For his part, MP Raad counting Aldhlki government's decision to reduce the allocation of salaries as a "purely political", the excuse that "remuneration is reduced about 3 per thousand of the size of salaries in general."

Aldhlki said, in a statement to the "long", "We need to state institution to eliminate corruption, which he spent on the state budget, not the salaries and allowances of staff."

... From Mohammed Sabah

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