The
monthly salary of Massoud Barzani is $ 400,000
June
29, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlęr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — According to information
obtained by the Kurdish magazine (Levin) last
November, remuneration and the monthly salary of
Massoud Barzani, president of the autonomous region
of Kurdistan in Iraq's north is $400,000
dollars per month.
This amount is equivalent to the salary and
allowances of Barack Obama President of the USA for
a full year, because Obama is the salary ($ 33,333)
dollars and only equal to ($400,000) dollars a
year. The Kurdistan region budget not to exceed 8
billion dollars a year in return that the annual
budget for the United States is ($14,264) trillion
dollars.
And Massoud Barzani consists of 3 provinces and
population of 5 million people, while Obama is
president of 50 states and a population of
approximately (307) million.
The salary and allowances of Iraqi president and the
head of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK Jalal
Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, is (12) million dollars
annually, or one million dollars a month, and pay
both (Talabani and Barzani) is one of the highest
salaries among the heads of the world.
While the salary of Kurdistan president is less than
the salary of Iraqi president, but it is also a
higher salary comparing it to some of the world's
leader salaries, as for example the salary and
allowances of Nicolas Sarkozy (President of France)
is ($ 26,500) per month salary and German Chancellor
Merkel is ($ 25,250) dollars, and Salary Gordon
Brown - the Prime Minister of England - is ($
23,250) dollars, and pay Abdullah Gul, Turkish
President is ($ 12,300) dollars and Prime Minister
of Japan salary ($ 16,500) dollars. Barzani salary
comes in third place in the highest salaries among
the world's leader after Talabani and President of
Hong Kong, which receives per month ($ 430,000) per
month.
Barzani in the previous session of Kurdistan
parliament was not allocated a specific budget and
expenses of the presidency did not come up in
parliament, as claimed by some MPs.
One of the deputies at the second session did not
wish to disclose his name for the sensitivity of
this issue told the Kurdish magazine Levin: He has
been allocated a huge budget to the presidency of
the region, unlike what the government did not
reveal the presidency for the expenses of the
parliament, and said, "I personally do not know the
budget of the President of Kurdistan Region."
In many countries of the world, there is the budget
set for the heads on certain grounds, including: the
general budget and the salaries of persons and
concerns of the President as well as the political
system of parliamentary Is or a republic? Or
property? Law pointed out the number one region to
the presidency of 2005 year on the need to determine
the president's budget according to regulations and
constitutional laws, but after four years did not
determine the budget allocations and the President
of the Region.
Abdullah Malla Nuri, the deputy of the Kurdish
opposition Change movement (Gorran) said that do not
specifying the budget of the President of the region
by law shows the lack of planning, paving the way
for the president of the province of manipulating
the wealth of the region. And said: "We will try in
the parliament, determining the budget and the
salaries of positions sovereign in the region".
On June 1, 2010 a Baghdad newspaper on uncovered the salaries of the top 10 state
officials, with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
taking the lead with an annual salary of $700,000 Aswat Al Iraq website reported.
“The control authorities in the state do not have
any written legal texts that specify the salaries of
state officials as their offices undertake setting
the value of those salaries, appropriations and
social privileges,” the independent Al-Aalam (World)
newspaper said in a report, quoting a high-ranking
state official as saying.
“The money received by those 10 senior officials, in
light of information provided by the officials’
offices, could be much less than what is actually
spent, due in large part to the absence of
mechanisms to verify the top state people’s
payments,” added the paper.
“The anti-corruption board does not have any
accurate data about the upper political strata’s
expenses simply because those persons’ salaries are
outside the parameters of any law,” the board chief,
Raheem al-Ekeili, was quoted by the paper as saying.
Talabani’s monthly salary is 75 million Iraqi dinars,
which make 900 million dinars (roughly $700,000)
annually, while the two vice presidents’ annual
salaries hit 720 million dinars ($600,000), the
paper said.
The prime minister’s monthly salary is 36 million
dinars, making an annual sum of 432 million dinars
($360,000), while the monthly salaries of the two
deputy prime ministers is 17 million dinars, it
added.
Sources:
http://iraqnews.elaphblog.com/Posts.aspx?U=387&A=30359
http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?142391-Maliki-s-salary-equivalent-to-the-salaries-of-six-thousand-two-hundred-Iraqi-civil-servants-and-weak-salary-Obama
Lvin magazine, lvinpress.com
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