Deputy: Baghdad can not cut the salaries of employees of Kurdistan

Deputy: Baghdad can not cut the salaries of employees of Kurdistan



2019-05-27 09:12

A member of the parliamentary finance committee of the Kurdistan Islamic Union, Jamal Kogger, on Monday, that the federal government can not cut the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region, according to the federal budget for the year 2019.

He said in an interview with Alsumaria News, that " Baghdad can not have to cut the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region , the absence of a legal text allows them to take this action," noting that "Article 10 of the federal budget for the year 2019 paragraph II / c clearly indicated that The federal government is committed to pay the dues of the region, including the salaries of staff of the region, offset by the obligation of the region to pay oil dues equal to 250 thousand barrels per day in paragraph (a) of the same article.

He added that "the same article pointed out that in case of non-compliance of the region to pay the proceeds of the damage is deducted from the lack of commitment to the region of the region," pointing out that "the article as a whole did not talk about the severance of salaries of employees of the region because the agreement was clear the importance of the exclusion of salaries of employees for all Differences and political intersections. "

A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Majid Shankali called, Sunday, April 7, 2019, to remove the staff of the Kurdistan region from the political conflicts sterile.

The representative of the victory coalition Huda Sajjad , Tuesday, April 23, 2019, expressed its intention to file a lawsuit against Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Finance Minister Fouad Hussein on the file of payment of funds to the Kurdistan region without paying the region any dues from its oil exports to Baghdad .

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