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An internal economic struggle in the Kurdistan Regional Government is similar to that of Baghdad and Erbil

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The Financial Committee of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament announced that the local government in Sulaymaniyah Governorate does not send non-oil financial revenues to the treasury of the Kurdistan Regional Government, which causes the continuation of the deduction of salaries for workers in the public sector.

Hvidar Ahmed, deputy head of the committee, said in a press conference that Dohuk and Erbil receive the financial revenues generated from the border crossings to the regional government, and the latter informed the Sulaymaniyah administration that more people receive salaries, retirement, grants and financial aid in Sulaymaniyah.

He added that the regional government has informed the administration of the necessity to hand over $ 80 million a month, and although the governorate has seven border ports, it refuses to hand over the revenues.

Ahmed asked, saying: Where is justice in this case? Is it justice that we cut from the mouths of the citizens in Erbil and Dohuk and give it to Sulaymaniyah, and in return, the latter is not ready to hand over its financial revenues?

The Vice President of the Finance Committee indicated that the government spends 400 billion dinars per month to the departments of the governorates of Sulaymaniyah and Halabjah, stressing that Sulaymaniyah’s failure to send financial revenues caused the employees ’salaries to be deducted