Rudeness and lack of modesty: a bicycle for the Iraqi parliamentary $ 10 thousand real estate and gi

Rudeness and lack of modesty: a bicycle for the Iraqi parliamentary $ 10 thousand real estate and gift each deputy!!



21-09-2013

Despite all the popular demands and the threat of demonstrations to protest the retirement of Parliament and high privileges, Iraq's parliament approved last July its budget for the year 2014 which was considered at the time, disregard for the wishes of the Iraqi people.

Parliament raise the budget of 387 billion dinars (330 million dollars) in 2013, to 528 billion dinars ($ 450 million) in the budget of 2014.

Increase approved by the Parliament by 38 percent, higher than in the form of a large amount of the expected increase in the number of Representatives during the next session (4 percent), and the rate of inflation in Iraq (5 percent to 6 percent).

Parliament did not provide sufficient justification for this increase and only responded to his critics that the budget approved by the ?is much less than the budgets of my presidency of the Republic and the Minister, (Parliament Foundation's nearly 1,400 employees in addition to the 325 deputies only).

Explain Deputy Details increases in the budget, and comparing the budget of the year 2012, it rose cleaning commissioned by 636 million dinars (540 thousand dollars) in addition to the work by allowances (318 thousand dollars). The increased cost of security barriers ($ 8,500) to (425 thousand dollars), and the cost of equipment and machinery (580 thousand dollars) to ($ 10 million). And $ 2.45 million in clothing benefits, and $ 8.5 million for maintenance and $ 24 million in grants and subsidies, and $ 19 million in extraordinary expenses do not know their nature.

The budget also included funds ?to buy bicycles. This paragraph said Iraqi issue dispatch parliamentary staff to the city of Arbil to buy a bicycle German-made newspapers said at the time that the price is (10 thousand dollars), while the response of parliament that the price of the real does not exceed 2,000,318 thousand Iraqi dinars (two thousand dollars), not to mention the cost of IFAD itself.

Land for 'peace'

And academic researcher believes Moussa al-Obeidi, members of Parliament's attempt to preserve the privileges that they had obtained, ?it easier for the government to escape accountability task.

Obeidi mention here how the Prime Minister agreed to grant the House of Representatives pieces of land on the Tigris River and the rate of 600 square meters each deputy, at the same time when the parliament was locked in a debate about the possibility of dismissal of the government.

Obeidi is believed that the earth was a 'bribe', compared to the observed value of land per square meter of which more than 3 thousand dollars ($ 1.8 million for one piece of land).

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