In countermeasure to a Federal Court decision…the story and numbers of the “secret increase” in parliament salaries

Al-Summary Channel noted that the Ishraqat Kanun bloc “partially” revealed this when it discussed the tables meant to raise MPs’ salaries, where it revealed that there was a private matter, and afterwards, no statements or explanations were declared about the story. As soon as the news spread about the “secret procedures” carried out within the parliament regarding the addition of “privileges and increasing the salary of members of the Iraqi parliament in the session of Wednesday last week, August 7, stories started going around that the additions were around 4.5 million Iraqi dinars that raise the monthly salary to 14.4 million dinars, in addition to the insurance and other privileges that a member receives, without specifying them, from institutions and.

The Presidency of the Parliament had proposed, on a first reading of the amendment to the House of Representatives Law, determining for reading and amendment based on a decision of the Federal Court on the unconstitutionality of some expressions in Articles 48 and 50 related to the appointment of advisers. That was within the general framework of the session and what is read throughout the session.

The legislature even sought the extent, amending several House of Representatives Law articles focusing on the rights of the representatives, such as providing personal guards, to where the representative is entitled to such a guard even after his tenure as a representative is over, then extending the right of such guards not just the Speaker of Parliament and his two deputies but also to representatives.

This Article 64, House of Representatives Law, is furthermore allowed by instructions, giving guidelines to assign wages and the salaries of Council deputies and staff for the Speaker of Parliament and his two deputies; thus, establishing that not only does one law determine these salary figures but are deduced as such through guidelines.

This amendment and shift could still generally be explained as a response to a decision issued separately from the decision on the unconstitutionality of Articles 48 and 50 of the House of Representatives Law. As the Federal Court issued a judgment based on a lawsuit filed by one of the representatives, which led to the decline of the salaries, in their capacity, as employees, of the general managers in the House of Representatives, their salaries were not reduced, and the decision issued since 2017 in the Abadi government was not implemented. THIS

The decision of the Federal Supreme Court is that even a decrease included the salary of the members of the House of Representatives who have a bachelor’s degree and preparation certificate. And the members who have Master’s or are on that remained the same or went a bit a high; and lastly those that are doctorate were a bit high.

Including “issuing instructions on raising the salaries of representatives,” the presidency of the parliament implemented paragraph 64 of the House of MPs Law. As for the salaries of representations themselves, representatives still went without most tables regarding the size of the raise in such salaries or how much they will be worth, so no details were revealed about these two matters. In general, the average pay of a representative decreased from 8 million and 200 thousand dinars to over 6 million dinars.

In contrast to representatives before the cut of 6 million dinars, now most council members get pay ranging from 8 to 10 million dinars. This increases the discrepancy between parliamentarians’ pay, which might differ between 6 and 10 million dinars.