Party nominates Barzani, Zebari finance portfolio instead of Shaways

Party nominates Barzani, Zebari finance portfolio instead of Shaways 


28-09-2014 11:14 PM



According to a source familiar with the party's 'democratic' Kurdistan, that the party had decided to rename the leadership of the Party, Hoshyar Zebari, foreign minister who served in the governments of Iraq for the period 2004-2014, to take over the finance portfolio in the new government.

The source said, who kept all of anonymity, said that 'the positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the share of the party, and decide to stay in the Rose Nuri Shaways as deputy prime minister, while Zebari was named to the finance portfolio.' 

The same source pointed out that 'the party had decided, earlier, naming Shaways to the finance portfolio, and Zebari for the position of Deputy Prime Minister, is that the lack of acceptance of the idea of ​​Shaways fill the bag of Finance, to make the party reconsider nominated for two'.

It is noteworthy that despite the passage of 20 days on the Iraqi parliament's approval on the current government headed by Haidar al-Abadi, the Kurds is that ministers did not attend to their work in Baghdad so far.

Attributes informed sources (according to the website 'new Arab') reason to desire the Kurdistan region to obtain its share of the budget for months, from the current year, which was the former president of the government of Nouri al-Maliki has frozen earlier this year because of the dispute over oil exports and revenues.

It demands Region is estimated at eight billion dollars, he says its share of the country's budget for the past eight months, by about one billion per month, as well as demanding the salaries of the staff of the region as Baghdad withheld their salaries since February last year.

For his part, linked to the new Prime Minister disbursement of funds to the region to conduct the audit in the amount of oil exported by the province. In spite of that Abadi had promised earlier that he would send the salaries of one month of salary arrears as a goodwill gesture, but the Kurds refused it, as they adopted a conservative stance of sending ministers to participate in the government.



But negotiators returned Kurds and the government decided to participate, provided their performance is evaluated about the demands of the Kurdistan region after 3 months of work, and in the case did not see an improvement in the attitude of Baghdad, Irbil, pinning their participation.

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