News, Rumors and Opinions Monday Morning 1-20-2020

TNT:

Tishwash:  maybe the escalated demonstrations are helping hmmm

Parliamentary Bloc: Saleh will announce today a personal candidate for prime minister

Today, 14:05

 The head of the Bairaq Al-Khair bloc, Mohamed Al-Khalidi, said that the President of the Republic will announce today, Monday, his candidacy as a prime minister, instead of resigned to Abdul-Mahdi.

Mohamed Al-Khalidi said, in an interview with "Gilgamesh Press", that "President Barham Salih will announce today the nomination of a prime minister," noting that "meetings continue between Saleh and the leaders of political blocs until the moment."

Al-Khalidi added, "The president of the republic has an independent personality and has an acceptable position to assume the presidency of the next government."

The new Prime Minister is named today, Monday or Tuesday

 An informed political source revealed, Monday, January 20, 2020, the nomination of the Prime Minister, today, Monday, or Tuesday, .as a maximum

The source revealed the meeting of the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, the President of the Victory Coalition, Haider al-Abadi, the President of the Alliance of the Hadi al-Amiri, and the President of the Al-Hikma Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, to resolve the nomination of the candidate for the .position of Prime Minister .

The sources say that the assembled people agree that the candidate must win the approval of the masses of the demonstrations .Protests escalated in Baghdad and the provinces after the constitutional deadline to assign a candidate for prime minister ended .

Totals, roads were cut in front of traffic, and many official circles were closed And Iraqis are waiting for the nomination of the candidate to be far from the choices of consuming or partisan personalities, and that the political forces .give up their privileges and conditions in order to achieve stability and prevent further chaos   link

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Harambe:  Reuters: Dozens of Iraqi protesters wounded as anti-government unrest resumes https://reut.rs/30AEQxe

Courtesy of Dinar Guru

Frank26 ...I feel IMO that the government of Iraq and the CBI are two different things.  Separate male-female and yet ironically enough you need the two to create something beautiful.  Life.  The CBI is working on raising the value of the Iraqi dinar and the GOI is also working on cleaning itself out.  Well it turns out that just 3 days ago Trump went into the CBI and they arrested people left and right.  They're cleaning the swamp so that the country of Iraq can stand by itself and have their own currency and be proud of it. And that's what's going on right now...

Frank26    Because the banks are communicating with the Central Bank and the central bank is talking, 'Hey it's time.  Give us all those 3 zeros you've collected...we're going to replace it with currency you are not to give to the citizens...You know those small category notes that we've already delivered to you?  That's what you're gonna deliver to the citizens.'  And the key thing is when and at what rate...I don't know the date and I don't know the rate but I do know that it's happening because the Central Bank of Iraq is saying this is what we're doing [and all the signs are pointing that way.]  Tremendous signs....I'm excited about the future with this currency

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Samson:  Legal: Parliament can pass the 2020 budget without receiving it from the caretaker government

08:33 - 20/01/2020

On Monday, legal expert Haider Al-Soufi confirmed that Parliament is able to pass the 2020 budget by receiving it from the Finance Ministry and presenting it to the vote as a proposed law, pointing out that the government is restricted in powers and it cannot send the budget to Parliament as it is a daily caretaker government.

Al-Sufi said in a statement to "Information", that "the government is restricted by powers in accordance with the constitution and there are pressures exerted by Parliament on the government with regard to the budget, but that does not allow and does not give the government the authority to send the budget as it is a caretaker government, and if it is subject to pressure, it will violate the constitution."

He added that "the House of Representatives can obtain a draft budget from the Ministry of Finance, and prepares a law proposal and vote on it." He explained that "the government, and having restricted powers, cannot submit the budget bill to parliament for a vote on it."

And that "the budget can be passed through the powers of Parliament, provided that it gets it from the Ministry of Finance without being sent by the government so that this does not violate the constitution."   LINK

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Samson:  Advisor to the Prime Minister: The retirement law will eliminate 40% of unemployment

20th January, 2020

The financial advisor in the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed on Monday that the new retirement law approved by the parliament will eliminate 40% of unemployment, indicating that there are four million employees between permanent owners and contracts

Saleh said in a statement reported by "Al-Sabah" newspaper and seen by "Al-Iqtisad News", that "about four million employees between permanent owners and contracts, and about three million retirees receive salaries from the public budget," noting that "the government and the parliament should provide guarantees for workers in the sector Private sector in order to reduce the demand for the government sector

He added, "The new law for retirement will contribute to addressing 40 percent of the unemployment rate that prevails over the next four years, but the law overloads job experiences that cannot be compensated

It is worth mentioning that the House of Representatives voted last November on the First Amendment Law of the Unified Retirement Law No. 9 of 2014, which included in its most prominent paragraphs the reduction of the retirement age to 60 instead of 63 years. Unemployed   LINK

Samson:  Al-Tamimi reveals to Al-Akhbaria a file of corruption in which the value of waste is more than 50 million dollars

19th January, 2020

Member of Parliamentary Finance Committee Magda Al-Tamimi revealed today, Sunday, a corruption file in Iraqi Airways, affiliated to the Ministry of Transport, the value of waste in it exceeds $ 50 million, while she stressed that if this corruption contract is applied, airlines will declare bankruptcy.

Al-Tamimi told Al-Akhbaria that I “raised a number of corruption files to the Integrity Commission, the last of which was a corruption file in Iraqi Airways, and another in the National Insurance Company,” noting that “the value of financial waste in the contract of the Ministry of Transport (Iraqi Airways) It exceeds 50 million dollars."

A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee added, "She submitted the documents of the Ministry of Transport contract to integrity, and challenged some items that are not in the interests of airlines." In the future. "

The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed today that the budget in 2020 will witness a deficit of 48 trillion dinars, while noting that the value of waste in fake projects until 2014 exceeded 282 trillion dinars.   LINK

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Samson:  Deputy: Today, Saleh will be appointed as the new Prime Minister

20th January, 2020

On Monday, President of the Republic Barham Salih is expected to appoint a new prime minister to succeed resigning Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Member of Parliament Muhammad Al-Khalidi said in a statement to "Al-Akhbaria" that "President Barham Saleh will appoint today the candidate for the position of prime minister."  LINK