MPs voted to slash their wages and those of ministers and top officials on Tuesday, a lawmaker said, several months after such plans were initially mooted to quell street protests across Iraq. "Parliament voted today by a simple majority to reduce the salaries of the three presidencies, of all MPs, ministers and senior civil servants," said Ali Shlah, a member of the Islamic Dawa party of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The three presidencies refer to President Jalal Talabani, Maliki, as president of the cabinet, and parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi. "The monthly salary of MPs was lowered to 10 million dinars ($8,500), and the monthly salary for a minister is now eight million dinars ($6,800)," Shlah added. Maliki, Talabani, Nujaifi and their deputies will all receive salaries of 12 million dinars ($10,000) a month.
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