Special | Updates of the Kurdish delegation meeting and Sami spectrum.. Erbil awaits the visit of a delegation from Baghdad
Dara Hama Ahmed, a member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Legal Committee, revealed on Monday, January 20, 2025, the results of the dialogues held by the Kurdish delegation in Baghdad with Finance Minister Taif Sami, on the salaries of the region’s employees.
Ahmed said in a statement to the “Jabal” platform that “the dialogues of the regional delegation in Baghdad were positive and good, but they have not resolved the financial differences between Baghdad and Erbil so far, especially the disbursement of financial allocations to the region to pay the salaries of employees there.”
He pointed out that “the delegation ended its meetings in Baghdad and tomorrow, Tuesday, a delegation from the Iraqi federal government will head to the city of Erbil to complete the dialogues to reach solutions to the financial crisis that negatively affected citizens in the Kurdistan Region.”
He added that “the next few days we may witness solutions to the salary crisis of the Kurdistan Region employees, as the dialogues continue and there is a positive atmosphere according to what has reached us by the regional government delegation today.”
Earlier, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and spokesman for the “Parti” bloc in the Iraqi House of Representatives, Vian Dakhil, the finance minister in the federal government, attacked Taif Sami, saying that she was following the methods of Saddam Hussein with the children of the Kurdistan Region,
“The Ministry of Finance has returned lists because the names are written in Kurdish,” an intern intersation that “the Ministry of Finance to manage the funds is the reason behind the region’s salary crisis,” Dakhil said in an interview with the “Approachment” program and followed by “Al-Jabal”.
She pointed out that “99% of the employees of the region are their salaries,” considering that “the Minister of Finance [Tif Sami] follows Saddam Hussein’s methods with the children of Kurdistan,” according to her expression.
An interner pointed out that “all governorates have a problem with the Ministry of Finance and there is no clear financial policy,” noting that “the statement of the Ministry of Finance is unrealistic and we have what proves that it is not correct,” and “our evidence confirms that the Ministry of Finance has delivered only 10 trillion Erbil and not as it claims,” while “what has been achieved from non-oil revenues in Iraq as a whole is 8 billion and finance wants half of them from the region.”
Finance Minister Taif Sami stated earlier that “one of the most prominent challenges faced by the ministry in implementing the 2024 budget and the deficit in it came as a result of the federal government’s payment of more than 11 trillion salaries for Kurdistan Region employees, while the authorities in Kurdistan did not hand over the regional oil and non-oil revenues to the Center, which reflected negatively on the financing of other governorates,” according to her claim.
