Iraqi News Agents and advisers to Iraqi ministries, the Parliament threatened general strike

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Baghdad / follow-up to the Levant: said a senior government official, said about 200 agents and advisors to the Iraqi ministries, threatened general strike in the event of non-proofed the angel of the Permanent Council before the Iraqi parliament, while pointing out that they have been working for four years, "proxy." He said official in an interview, that "a number of agents and advisers in Iraqi ministries have started all meetings, on Saturday and to discuss the issue on the staffing of Permanent Appointment, by the Iraqi Council of Representatives before the end of the mandate of the current government." The official, who asked not to be be named, said there was "nearly 200 agents and consultants are still in working proxy", noting that they "waited four years to vote on tenure, and turn them into agents and permanent advisers, but to no avail." He pointed out that "the Council of Ministers voted on their names and submit them to the House of Representatives Since the beginning of their term of these positions, "pointing out that" the House of Representatives ended its vote did not mean for them after losing their rights in the midst of political consensus, "as he put it. The Iraqi prime minister had earlier pointed out that failure to install agents and advisers in their positions as agents permanent, would lead to the retrieval of all the differences in salaries, which were obtained during the past four years. The official, an adviser in the State for meeting demands for "House for a special session to consider the case and hold them as agents and advisers permanent", pointing out that they "threatened to declare complete strike in all the ministries and that would lead to a complete paralysis in government departments because of their positions advanced. " The Iraqi Council of Representatives ended its mandate, which lasted nearly four years last Tuesday, to vote on the budget for the current year 2010, after long discussions and objections from some political parties for fear it could be used for electoral propaganda by the governmental parties, and in the paragraphs that have been adopted within the budget, article 21 which stipulates that link 115 thousand degrees and the establishment of functional Service Council of the Union has been postponed to the next parliament. It is noteworthy that most of Iraqi ministries and agents in addition to military commanders in the Iraqi army as well as heads of independent bodies such as the integrity and property claims and the Hajj and Umrah was appointed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acting since mid-2006 until now, the delay in the Iraqi parliament to vote on them, and the absence of political consensus among parliamentary blocs, to set specific figures for this

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