Saleh assures the Minister of Finance of the need to resolve the files between Baghdad and Erbil in accordance with the constitution

Baghdad today – President of the Republic Barham Salih affirmed the necessity of resolving the differences between Baghdad and Erbil, according to the constitution, while pointing out the need for appropriate reforms and combating corruption.

The Office of the Presidency of the Republic said in a statement received (Baghdad today), that “Saleh received Finance Minister Ali Abdul Amir Allawi at the Peace Palace in Baghdad.”

Saleh stressed, according to the statement, “the necessity of undertaking appropriate reforms and combating corruption, working to rationalize government spending and preserve public money, and to develop and diversify the sources of the economy while the country faces the emerging Corona epidemic.”

He continued that “economic remedies to get out of the current conditions should not affect the low-income classes, employees and retirees and their life obligations.”

The statement added that “it was emphasized that the outstanding issues between the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government should be resolved in accordance with the constitution and legal frameworks in a manner that preserves the rights of all citizens.”

The meeting covered, according to the statement, “discussing the necessary means to support Iraq to face the current financial crisis and the plans and measures required to overcome it, and the importance of unifying efforts and solidarity among all to reduce the deficit in the public budget in order to achieve social justice and economic stability for all Iraqis.”

In turn, the Minister of Finance reviewed “the procedures followed by the ministry in dealing with economic and financial conditions, and the synergy required by the current circumstance to combine efforts to overcome the current stage and its implications for public life.”

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Charles Couch ~ They say it as plain as day to stop the currency auctions and changing the dinar exchange rate!!

The information / Baghdad ..  On Wednesday, a group of deputies presented a set of proposals to the government aimed at filling the deficit in the budget of 2020 and facing the financial crisis caused by the collapse of global oil prices, the most important of which was stopping the currency auction and changing the dinar exchange rate.

The deputies said, in a joint statement, which was received / information / they are: Muzahim Al-Tamimi, Adnan Al-Zarfi, Qasim Al-Araji, Mohammed Al-Daraji, Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani, “Any government or parliamentary action towards reducing spending and austerity must be accompanied by a real approach by the government to combat Administrative and financial corruption and stopping the processes of wasting public money that have occurred previously or will happen through activating the role of the oversight bodies and following up issues raised by members of the House of Representatives and the media, specifically strengthened with priorities, documents and documents, and that there are periodic clarifications on what these measures are from the government and judicial authorities, and we are appealing to the judicial authority To be present in this field in a way that enhances the citizen’s confidence in the state and its authorities in fighting corruption. ”

They suggested “stopping work in the outlets of selling the currency with preparing instructions whereby all importers are required to submit lists that include imported goods for the purpose of customs accounting in the General Authority for Customs and Taxes before transferring money and notify the Central Bank of accounting according to official correspondence accompanied by customs bills and taxes, and change the dinar exchange gradually in a way that does not affect the The citizen and to guarantee the provision of cash that the state needs. ”

They called for a “review of the import approach and specifying possible goods and products to issue a decision banning their import to allow government companies in the Ministry of Industry, the private sector and the mixed sector to qualify their factories and produce these goods to create jobs and maintain hard currency instead of taking them out of the country.”

They stressed the need to “take adequate and rapid measures to control the border outlets and not to allow any unofficial port and to assign officials at a high level of integrity and courage able to control these borders and implement the laws related to customs tariffs and the protection of the national product and prevent importation and the application of the agricultural calendar, and obligating mobile phone companies to pay Fines, entitlements and taxes immediately with a legal technical review of the contracts of these companies in a way that guarantees the national interest with the activation of the fourth license and submitting it to the public through the competent ministry.

They demanded to “activate the tax system and reconsider the tax laws in a manner that allows the development of this sector and what it represents of important revenue for the state, and to reactivate the initiative of the Central Bank to allocate funds for loans to the industrial, agricultural and real estate bank to encourage the private sector to borrow and implement projects that create true development that Loans and restrictions related to granting loans are eased, as well as allocating the necessary funds for lending to small and medium-sized youth projects in order to generate job opportunities and create small projects that could be a source of livelihood for young people at the present time. Its impact on the citizen’s living conditions and needs. ”

They considered that “these and other proposals that would provide funds to bridge the deficit on the one hand, and we see that these amounts are directed towards supporting the social protection network, the ration card, medicines, and water sterilization, while supporting the educational and educational process and securing all its needs.” 25 h finished

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Iraq has the right to recover smuggled money outside the country

Gilgamesh Press / Legal expert, Ali Al-Tamimi, confirmed today, Monday, that Iraq has the right to recover smuggled money outside the country.

Al-Tamimi said in a statement received by “Gilgamesh Press”, that the ” International Anti-Corruption Agreement of 2005 signed by Iraq 2007 allows Iraq to request the United Nations to recover the smuggled money as money laundering and corruption is financial.”
He added that “according to Article 50 of the Charter of the United Nations, states that fight terrorist organizations under Chapter Seven of the Charter of the United Nations may request economic assistance from the United Nations, and it is known that ISIS was placed under Chapter VII under UN Security Council Resolution 2170 of 2014.”

He continued, “Various countries have announced their willingness to provide economic assistance to Iraq, including Britain, so Iraq can request assistance from the international community, the United Nations, to rebuild liberated cities, face the consequences of the war against terrorism, according to the foregoing, and recover the smuggled money estimated at $ 500 billion.”

He noted that “according to Article 27 of the 2008 Iraqi-American Strategic Agreement, Iraq can request economic assistance from America, as this article required.”
He pointed out that “the current situation and the lack of health facilities to face the Corona pandemic and the decline in oil prices, Iraq had to move in this direction.”

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Al-Kazemi has the authority to restrict the work of the currency auction and to hold accountable the negligent

Member of Parliament Finance: Al-Kazemi has the authority to restrict the work of the currency auction and to hold accountable the negligent

Baghdad today – Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Abd al-Hadi al-Saadawi, revealed that there are suspicions of corruption hovering around the work of the foreign currency auction.

Al-Saadawi said in an interview singled out (Baghdad today), that “there are money sold in the currency auction without supervision and allow large corruption operations, therefore it is possible that the Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, according to his powers, monitors the window of currency sales and holds accountable those who fail.”

He added that “Al-Kazemi does not have the powers to cancel the auction of selling the currency, as it is a window to the central bank in order to obtain the local currency and also import the goods.”

He stressed that “the Prime Minister also has the power to restrict the work of the auction and does not have the right to cancel it.”

The member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, MP Majida Al-Tamimi, said on Monday (1 June 2020) that her research in the Iraqi currency auction led her to shocking results, which were the arrival of money from the auction to terrorist groups, as well as another part of it going to Iraqi political parties.

During her talk about the program (shortest paths) presented by the media, Dr. Nabil Jassem on Al Sharqia News screen, Al-Tamimi studied: “I discovered that the currency auction goes to four parties, some of the central bank employees, the other quarter to the parties and the other quarter to the merchants.”
She added, “As for the last quarter, it goes to the financing of terrorism,” noting that “the financing of terrorism was through a currency auction.”

Iraqi observers and officials estimate the value of what was sold of the dollar in the currency auction during the past fifteen years at more than 300 billion dollars.

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The President of the Republic affirms the necessity of cooperation between the supervisory bodies to uncover financial violations in a transparent and neutral manner

Baghdad today – President of the Republic Barham Saleh affirmed the necessity of cooperation between the supervisory agencies to uncover financial violations in a transparent and neutral manner.

The media office of the President of the Republic said in a statement received (Baghdad today), that “Saleh received at the Peace Palace in Baghdad, today, Monday, the head of the Federal Financial Supervision Bureau, Rafel Yassin Khudair.”

The statement added that “the President of the Republic stressed the need to preserve public money, reduce its waste, and uncover corruption cases in all state institutions.”
Saleh stressed “the importance of cooperation and joint work between the regulatory agencies and the state departments to uncover financial violations transparently and impartially,” noting that “fighting corruption is no less important than fighting terrorism as they are two sides of the same coin.”

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Parliamentarians and professionals propose solutions to overcome the financial crisis

Baghdad / Although there is no government proposal to reduce the salaries and allocations of employees and retirees, a number of deputies and specialists have confirmed that this step, if implemented, will pose a threat to the stable situation of the government at the present time, especially as it has immediate options during which the salaries of employees for the months of June and July can be secured,

Among these options are:

(1) internal borrowing, as well as controlling revenue from border crossings, and calling on telecom companies, as well as the Kurdistan region, for their debts.

The decision of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Dr. Ahmed Al-Saffar asserted in an exclusive interview with Al-Sabah: that “prejudice to the employees’ salaries in light of the circumstances that Iraq is going through today in the face of Corona and the economic recession is very dangerous to government stability, especially since this crisis will not exceed more than two months, Oil prices are on the rise and the global economy is beginning to regain its vitality again. “He added,” Borrowing from the central bank’s reserves for two months of quick solutions that can be compensated and returned easily and at low interest being short-term “, pointing out that”

(2) internal borrowing is better than external borrowing, which depends On very large terms and benefits, the government may be exhausted at a later date. ”

Al-Saffar notes:

(3) “the government should exclude unnecessary expenditures related to large allocations and other matters related to petty cash and protections, which also constitute a waste of public money,” noting that “the state has from 20 to 30 items of revenue that do not enter the budget due to corruption starting with border crossings and customs And the state’s real estate,

(4) so the financial system must be re-established, move away from monetary policies, deal with cache, and rely on the electronic automation of payment, in addition to resorting to the biometer until the state gets rid of the burden of multiple salaries, and we need to review salaries and put a new ladder for them.

In order that the state would not be exposed to more crises, Al-Saffar stressed

(5) “the restructuring of the financial system for public revenues, as well as the disposal of the rentier system that relies on unstable oil revenues and dependence on diversification of resources such as agriculture, industry and tourism, and that Iraq is an importer.”

Real-time proposals

In the absence of acceptance by the legislature of prejudice to the salaries of employees; Member of the Parliamentary Investment and Economic Committee, Dr. Nada Shaker Jawdat,

(6) proposes to monitor and prevent the currency auction in the Central Bank, which the MP counted during her talk to Al-Sabah as a “smuggling of hard currency outside Iraq, as well as reducing the salaries of the three presidencies to overcome the crisis.”

Jawdat calls the Prime Minister, “to immediately freeze the Rafha law, to issue a law to that effect, and to transfer money to the employees sector to confront the crisis instead of deducting their salaries that are a right of their rights,

(7) to adopt the electronic system of border ports and ports, whose resources are estimated at the amount of oil revenues that can feed salaries instead of Borrowing, because Iraq does not need a heavy financial and political burden for it to borrow. ”

Real risks

And economist Dr. Faleh Al-Zubaidi said in an exclusive interview with Al-Sabah: “There are many border outlets that are not affiliated with the state and that most of its resources go into the pockets of the corrupt.”

(7) He stresses that, according to specialists, Iraq imports $ 40 billion annually that the state can impose on it. Taxes and customs duties and provide revenues, even if they are at 10 percent. Al-Zubaidi states, “The state at this time must be firm in recovering debts from communication companies (Asia, Zain and Korek), especially since there is favoritism and a delay in paying the debts, just as the state must ask the Kurdistan region for debts that have not been recovered from it, especially since the region’s sales For oil exceeds 700 thousand, and the share of Iraq is 250 thousand. ”

Al-Zubaidi asserts that

(8) “Iraq is already going through a financial hardship as a result of the decline in oil revenues, so the state can seek the assistance of the foreign reserves of the Iraqi Central Bank, but it has a great risk, especially as the central bank uses these reserves to control the exchange rate of the dollar against the Iraqi dinar, and lack of control will increase From inflation rates and high prices,

(9) as there is another way through issuing a new cash, i.e. currency printing,
which the government can resort to, except that it has risks and also leads to inflation and affects significantly the owners of fixed and limited income, so it also constitutes a risk,

(9) except that the effects of borrowing The interior is
less dangerous than foreign borrowing, such as borrowing from the World Bank fund or from countries that will curtail the Iraqi economy because of the conditions that follow the political position on which the donor country depends. He added,

(10) The borrowing money from foreign countries must go to investment, not for consumption, so that we can pay those sums from investment projects, but that these funds go to consumer sectors, Iraq will remain reimbursed from the oil revenue sold instead of using it to benefit the country.”

Law and withholding

(11) From a legal point of view, the legal expert, Tariq Harb, confirmed in a special statement to Al-Sabah that “the salaries law has been in effect since 2008 and it cannot be deducted except by issuing a law. In disposing. Noting that “deduction of salaries does not constitute one-fifth of the allocations that the general directors of the Council of Ministers and others take, so we demand the deduction or reduction of those allocations for justice.”

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Al-Tamini proposes a mechanism to amend the salary scale and warns: Money from the currency auction goes to finance terrorism

Baghdad today – Member of Parliamentary Finance Committee, MP Magda Al-Tamimi, spoke about a deficit of billions of dollars in the state budget rising every year since 2003, while revealing the proposal of “the Iraq Salvation Committee”.

Al-Tamimi said, during her talk about the program (shortest roads) presented by the media, Dr. Nabil Jassem, on Al Sharqiya News Channel: “We spent from 2003 to the end of 2019 a trillion (15 zero), 226 trillion and 631 billion dollars,” noting that “the oil and non-oil income reached a trillion And 24 billion dinars. ”

He added: “From the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2019 there is a deficit of approximately $ 70 billion.”

She explained: “We suffer from emotional and confusion and lack of planning in drawing and spending state budgets.”

And she added: “I spoke to President of the Republic Barham Salih that we need a committee called the Iraq Salvation Committee, which consists of a small team from the executive and legislative branches, and those who live inside the country work according to two tracks, the first is urgent and the second is medium and long-term.”

And she continued: “This committee must reconsider the salary scale, because there is a disparity in salaries between a ministry and a ministry, there must be justice in which salaries are equal between all and this proposed mechanism has been put forward in practice.”

And after 2003, laws were enacted on emotional backgrounds that created allocations that allowed dual salaries to exist, she added, adding: “It is impossible to imagine an employee with two or three salaries, and an employee and citizen who cannot find what he eats.”

She went on to say, “The graduates are thinking of the appointment and that behind him retired because of the lack of support from the private sector,” adding that “Iraq is able to overcome the crisis according to my vision three months by restoring the economic situation.”

And she saw that “the financial situation is bad in the country, but the solution is easy with the will and the decision-maker needs boldness and strength in applying the law, and a lot of decisions and reform laws were initiated and not implemented.”

He pointed out that “the doors of appointments recently opened without planning”, warning that “there is no database in some ministries, showing the number of those who were referred for retirement, for example the Ministry of Education does not have and 13,000 new employees were appointed without knowing the size of the number of those who left.”

And she added: “There is no accuracy indicating the number of people referred for retirement, there is a discrepancy between the numbers installed on paper and what is mathematically proven, there is no computing.”

She talked about “forgery that occurred in some appointment orders issued by the previous government,” noting that “we have a lot of money but it is not collected or received less money according to the law, we have a lot of money that must be collected and go to the state but it does not reach the treasury.”

She pointed out that “there is an agreement with the electricity distribution centers for some malls, and 50 thousand instead of one million dinars are received, for example, and this includes commercial shops as well.”

And he talked about the auction of selling currency in Iraq, and the currency auction said that his money goes to 4 destinations that are employees of the central bank, parties, merchants, terrorism and financing of terrorism was through the currency auction.

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Parliament Rapporteur for Al-Mirbad: Al-Kazemi has completed his booth

House of Representatives Speaker Khadija Ali revealed that Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi has completed his cabinet, and as a result, the next few days may witness a session to vote on the remaining ministries, but the cabinet has not yet been officially presented to Parliament.

“It may be in the next few days because Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi has completed the cabinet and intends to present it, but he has not presented it officially yet, when it is presented he will fix the date of the session,” Ali said in a special statement to Al-Mirbad (about the date of a session to pass the rest of the cabinet). “The majority of the deputies are on standby and are trying to hold the session because the parliament’s role has become stalled as a result of the Corona epidemic, while the country needs the legislative role and what is related to the health and financial crisis.”

Ali said (regarding the ban) that it was hoped to ease the procedures of the ban after the decline in the number of casualties, but “the wind is running in a way that the ships do not desire.”

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Legal expert clarifies the validity of Saleh and Al-Kazemi to dissolve Parliament

{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The legal expert, Tariq Harb, clarified the authority of the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, and Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to dissolve the parliament in accordance with the constitution.

“The Prime Minister’s visit to the President of the Republic today was to dissolve the House of Representatives? According to their joint authority without the need for approval from another party, since 64 / First of the constitution decided that there are two ways to dissolve the House of Representatives before completing its electoral cycle, that is, before completing the four years,” Harb said in a statement. .

And “the first parliamentary path when the parliament dissolves itself at the request of one-third of its members, that is, a request from 110 deputies followed by a vote by a majority of members, i.e. a vote and approval by 165 deputies to dissolve the parliament, and this is far because the deputies do not want to leave this characteristic and the privileges resulting from it.”

Harb pointed out that “the other way that the constitution decided to dissolve the House of Representatives is the executive method requested by the Prime Minister and the approval of the President of the Republic without the need for any approval from any other party, which means the Presidents of the Republic and the ministers to dissolve Parliament even if Parliament rejects the solution and this is clear from the letter {or} It is stated in Article 64 of the Constitution that states: “The House of Representatives is dissolved by an absolute majority of its members at the request of one third of its members {or} and this benefits the allowance and option – or a request from the Prime Minister and with the approval of the President of the Republic.”

He continued, “What is mentioned after {or} is the executive way to dissolve parliament when the Prime Minister and President of the Republic agree to dissolve the House of Representatives, and contrary to the parliamentary regulations that granted the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament without the need for any other approval as the head of state as in Britain, Germany, Italy, India and South Africa, these countries It gave the prime minister the dissolution of Parliament without the need for the approval of another party. ”

“Did Al-Kazemi agree with Saleh to dissolve parliament now or after a period of known reasons, but what we know is that there is a constitutional authority set for them to dissolve the parliament without the need for approval from any other party,” he asked.

The President of the Republic, Barham Saleh, had received, Thursday, at the Peace Palace in Baghdad, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, and they confirmed, according to a presidential statement, “the need to expedite the completion of the ministerial cabinet by nominating efficient and impartial personalities, and support the government in implementing its program voted by the parliament by preparing for early elections.” , And to meet the legitimate demands of Iraqis to achieve the desired reform. ”

Ammar Al-Masoudi finished

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