A “counter” measure to a Federal Court decision.. The story and numbers of the “secret increase” in

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[size=52]A “counter” measure to a Federal Court decision.. The story and numbers of the “secret increase” in parliament salaries[/size]

[size=45]Over the past two days, the media and social networking sites have been buzzing with the story of the “secret procedures” that took place inside the Iraqi parliament in the session of last Wednesday, August 7, regarding adding “privileges and raising the salaries of members of the House of Representatives.”[/size]
[size=45]The story was revealed by the Ishraqat Kanun bloc “partially”, where it spoke about the MPs not being informed of the tables that were intended to raise the MPs’ salaries, and this matter was kept secret, while no information or clarifications were issued after that about the story.[/size]
[size=45]According to the context of the session and what was read during this session, the Parliament Presidency’s proposal for this matter came in conjunction with and “exploitation” of the first reading of the amendment to the House of Representatives Law, which was included for reading and amendment based on a decision by the Federal Court declaring the unconstitutionality of some phrases in Articles 48 and 50 related to the House of Representatives’ appointment of advisors.[/size]
[size=45]However, the parliament went further than that, amending many articles in the House of Representatives Law, including articles related to the privileges of representatives and adding personal guards for representatives, not just for the Speaker of Parliament and his two deputies, in addition to making these guards assigned to the representative even after the end of his term and service in Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]At the same time, and based on Article 64 of the House of Representatives Law, this article allows the Speaker of Parliament and his two deputies to issue instructions allocating their salaries and the salaries of the deputies and employees of the Council, meaning that they are not subject to a unified law, but rather instructions issued by the Speaker of Parliament and his two deputies to set the required figures for salaries.[/size]
[size=45]In general, this amendment and move coincided with a response to a decision issued by the Federal Court separately from the decision of the unconstitutionality of Articles 48 and 50 of the House of Representatives Law, as the Federal Court issued a decision based on a lawsuit filed by one of the representatives, which led to reducing the salaries of the general managers in the House of Representatives in their capacity as employees, and their salaries were not reduced or the decision to reduce their salaries issued since 2017 in the Abadi government was not implemented.[/size]
[size=45]Based on the decision of the Federal Supreme Court, the reduction even included the salaries of members of the House of Representatives who hold a preparatory certificate and a bachelor’s degree, while the salaries of those with a master’s degree remained stable or decreased slightly, with a slight increase in the salaries of those with a doctorate.[/size]
[size=45]In general, the average salary of a representative decreased from 8 million and 200 thousand dinars to about 6 million dinars, which prompted the parliament presidency to implement paragraph 64 of the House of Representatives Law, which includes “issuing instructions on raising the salaries of representatives,” but no details were revealed about the size of the increase in these salaries and how much they will amount to, as the representatives have not yet seen any tables related to them.[/size]
[size=45]But in general, the salaries of the representatives before they were reduced ranged between 10 and 15 million dinars, but they currently range between 8 and 10 million, before the reduction to 6 million for the majority of the members of the council, meaning that there is a widening gap between the members of parliament so that the salaries may be between 6 and 10 million dinars.[/size]
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