New government statement regarding salaries and allowances in the 2021 budget and exchange rate adjustment
Today, cabinet spokesman Hassan Nazem, made new statements regarding salaries and allocations in the 2021 budget, while indicating that the government cannot predict when the budget will be approved.
The new allocations added to salaries in the 2021 budget must be launched. We are now in a crisis. There must be remedies for the deficit in salaries due to the change in the exchange rate and the deficit that affected salaries.
If the budget is approved and taxes are fixed on employees’ salaries, their value will decrease after the rise in prices, and there must be treatments through allocations, and this is what we think about.
There is no truth to the statement quoted by me that the government is not bound by any change in the exchange rate by Parliament. A government spokesperson may not be stoned in absence of a possible change of exchange.
The current government has positive links with the Kurdistan region, and there is a sense of comfort in the discussions, and there is a complex currently related to the region’s share in the budget and it is still under negotiation.
This node has prolonged and persisted and must be resolved. Now we will enter the fourth month without finding solutions for some of the contract, including the region’s share.
We cannot predict when the budget will be approved next Saturday or not.
Regarding the Corona pandemic, the world is moving towards opening up with the availability of Iraq, and we in Iraq will open up with the global situation by providing the vaccine, which is the most important option.
The spread of the vaccine means moving towards openness and normal life, and there will be a meeting of Arab tourism ministers in Saudi Arabia next month to issue an Arab decision regarding openness to the global status of tourism.