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CNN. Broadcasting While The Ministers Of Parliament Plead Poverty As They're Lining Their Pockets With Iranian And Saudi Bribes ! (by dak) Iraqi parliamentarians refuse to pay cuts Writings Wednesday , April 22, 2015 Facing austerity plan put forward by the government in Baghdad to the Iraqi parliament to address the financial crisis, many of the challenges, in the forefront of refusal MPs pay cuts on the grounds that it is enough expenses and their families barely, while the government stresses the importance of implementing the plan, including the austerity measures to curb the deterioration of economic conditions. Iraq is facing a severe financial crisis due to the decline in global oil prices and rising costs of the war on the organization of the Islamic state "Daash", prompting the Government of Iraq to put an austerity plan that includes reducing the costs of all the joints of the government institutions in full, including the salaries of the know "special class" and is intended their lower house of parliament, ministers and their agents and general managers as well as the ministers and the heads of the Republic and the parliament, but the members of the Iraqi parliament confirmed yesterday for "new Arab", refusing to implement the austerity plan on their salaries. A member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Masood Haider, in a press statement that the Iraqi state is rich and has a lot of financial reserves and vast natural resources, particularly as oil exports have increased in recent times, what contributes to bridge the shortfall in the state budget, pointing out that the government has secured salaries employees that will not be eligible for austerity. Haider added that the state treasury is empty of both foreign exchange and gold, explaining that the statements that refer to the near collapse of the Iraqi economy comes as part of a malicious allegations. For his part, MP Mohammed Hamid, said that "members of parliament, but do not get enough to spend on their families and the daily performance of their duties barely, and will not accept a reduction roof Mrtbaatna because even if the reduction of our salaries will not have any significant impact on the budget." According to official data, the Iraqi parliament MP earns about 21 million dinars monthly salary and monthly, as well as 3 million hospitality allocations, and such a dangerous amount allocations, to be the total remuneration of the Attorney monthly KD 27 million, or more than 20 thousand dollars. In this context, an expert in economic affairs Ali al-Tai said that the reduction of the salaries of members of parliament turned into a paper in the hands of politicians rather than discussion of the economic part, as exploited by opponents and political parties in the political battle. He said al-Tai "Reducing the salaries of members of parliament would mean saving several million dollars a month if we know that the total salaries of Parliament with the provisions of the Presidency and protections and advisers of about $ 13 million a month, which means that in the case of the application of the full austerity plan, will provide at least About $ 4 million, which contributes even slightly in the solution to the financial crisis facing the state. However, his words, saying "do not have to hold the members of Parliament all the blame, there are many special grades state redundant and receive the same amount of salary," pointing to the existence of another opinion Inside Parliament with a reduced salary. It was an MP for the Liberal bloc, Nawal Juma, had said earlier that the government Abadi received treasury "empty" of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is accused by many seizure of state funds either corruption or by phantom projects, noting that there is a fear of the state's inability to pay salaries in the near future. The Finance Committee in Parliament revealed the day before yesterday, for the country's loss of about $ 360 billion, due to corruption and money-laundering operations, held for 9 years and in the period between 2006 and 2014 , in which al-Maliki became prime minister. For its part, the MP called for the Kurdistan Alliance Dry longings, in the central government's statements to the search for alternatives to make up for the scarcity of financial resources and lack of prejudice to the resources of citizens, noting that there are many ways to increase government resources including increased export of oil operations and work to open the door for investment especially for global companies in safe areas and others. She added that the situation in general and in particular the economic and security on both sides difficult and can not be borne by the citizen who suffers from a lack of salaries and lack of adoption of the new career ladder, rising prices and worsening living conditions of crisis. The number of Iraqi provinces mass demonstrations organized by a number of state employees in protest against the delay in payment of their salaries for more than 3 months and they have cut the number of main streets to push the government to implement the legislative demands. The Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, has warned in an earlier press statement, the decline in the economy because of the preoccupation with politicians in the partisan interests of a narrow and that caused the economic and social, political and security problems, adding that Iraq had reached its oil production in the seventies of the last century to nearly three million barrels per day While the decline today for much less than this figure. Abdul-Mahdi said that the Iraqi government and its institutions need at this time to the motives and incentives to go forward and by encouraging Western companies to establish investment projects in various sectors. In a related context, holding Iraqi Finance Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, technical meetings with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee institutions parties MIGA affiliated to the International Monetary Fund, where the Foreign Relations Committee member Hilal Sahlani confirmed that Zebari stressed during a meeting with chief executive officer of the Fund and Vice-Chairperson and FAO experts will need the institution to provide guarantees future projects in Iraq and lower prices imposed on investment projects to help the country economically and encourage the private sector, adding that the government is seeking to attract Western capital to overcome the financial crisis that has plagued Iraq in recent years because of the security and political unrest. http://www.kitabat.com/ar/page/22/04/2015/49564/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B6%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B6-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%85.html