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Senior officials prefer a government pension on the salaries of Parliament
Date: Thursday, 16.02.2012 9:53
Baghdad / range
deputies said that the leaders of blocs who were formerly in the executive branch and turned after the recent elections to the parliament, the government would rather retire on the salaries of the parliament. Once the speaker of parliament announced the decision to prevent leaves and Ivadat House of Representatives until the adoption of the financial budget for the current year 2012,
Even mentioned Congress that the leaders will be immune to this resolution, stressing that there is some courtesies by the President of parliament, Osama Najafi to the heads of parliamentary blocs.
decision emphasized the activation of cut of 500 thousand dinars from the monthly salary of the deputy in his absence, and doubled at the meetings where the vote on the laws.
said Mohammad Khaldi decision of Parliament yesterday that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to prevent leaves and Ivadat House until the passage of the financial budget for the current year 2012", asserting that "the president also decided to activate the administrative penalties for MPs absent from the meetings of Parliament and cut 500 thousand dinars for each session absence. "
The Presidency of the Council of Representatives of the former Iraqi imposed a fine of 500 thousand Iraqi dinars for each day absent the MP.
He Khalidi that "sanctions resolution includes a doubling of the amounts withheld during the meetings where the vote on the laws."
Conversely says MP for the Iraqi bloc white Zuhair al-Araji, "There is no neutrality in dealing with the House of Representatives on Alqtoat, and we have several indices for compliments issued by the President of parliament, with some parliamentarians influential."
He al-Araji, in a telephone conversation with (range) yesterday, "The decision of the presidency of parliament does not work with the leaders of political blocs who are in the Council, because most of them held the positions of government and receives now a pension greater than the salaries of parliamentarians, so the deduction will not covered in any way. "
For his part, MP for the Liberal bloc Jawad Jubouri "The presidency of the parliament made the decision of door notification only issue is located here on the responsibility of the House and see how their sense of responsibility. "
said Jubouri in an interview (range) brought by al-Araji said, "Yes, there are deputies receive their pensions as former officials in the state and prefer to pay the parliament and the presidency of the Parliament that the coordinates with the retirement issue of deduction of salaries.
stressed Jubouri that the Sadrists donate and as directed by the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the greater part of their salary to the work of schools and "that the salary of Parliament 6.5 million dinars, do not receive it more than a million and five hundred thousand dinars." .
and resumed House of Representatives during its meeting of 19 of the second legislative term of the year the second legislative held, yesterday, (February 14 cur) discuss the draft budget law the financial year 2012.
The meetings of the Parliament of the former Iraqi characterized the past four years the absence of large numbers of deputies repeatedly and unjustified, in Critical Circumstances were requiring their attendance, leading often to disrupt the work of the Legislative Council, and to the failure to perform its oversight role over the executive authority, as a result of these absences for disabled among other important laws and migrated to the new parliament.
It should also be noted that the Quorum of Parliament, was not completed only when it relates to items meeting the interests of the character of the deputies, as was the case when discussing the pension law of their own, and other benefits obtained by the House of Representatives, in what observers absence of the spirit of responsibility and commitment, which must be available in the Member of Parliament, as the legitimate representative of the Iraqi people.
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