24 Feb 2010
24 February 2010
Iraq Important Dates
5 March 2010 Early Special voting (security/military)
4-8 March 2010 Iraq Government declares a public holiday
5,6,7, March 2010 Vote for Iraqi citizens abroad (16 countries)
7 March 2010 Iraq Election Day
1 April 2010 U.N. Report Secretary-General Iraq report to UNSC
15 April 2010 Iraq Investment Conference Istanbul, Turkey
24 April 2010 IAMB meeting DFI mechanism
21 June 2010 U.N. Tarsov mandate extended
1 October 2010 Iraq national census rescheduled (was Oct 2009)
If you read the Iraq Important updates you will notice that I've
added a few more listings. The Iraqi government (GOI) has just
made an announcement that on 4-8 March there will be a
government holiday.
The holiday is to give the Iraqi's time to prepare for the
special election, voting abroad, and the actual election day
on March 7th as well as the following day.
Considering all the preparations that are going on in the run
up to the elections, it is inconceivable at this current time
that a reval will occur with the Iraqi dinar currency before
the elections.
In my last posting on 21 Feb, I mentioned that no government
salaries had been reduced for any government employees. The
Ministry of Oil Hussain al-Shahristani, made statements that no
employee will have reduced salaries. The Prime Minister, Maliki
gave all government workers raises in the second quarter of 2009.
Rumors of pay deductions are sometimes expected just before an
election to discredit an Iraqi politician. The pay deduction rumor
is not true. Just to give you an idea, the Iraqi Police salary was
5,000 Iraqi dinars and is now 65,000 Iraq dinars. In addition, the
Ministry is still wanting to increase the pay of all Police and
Security forces.
The Ministry of Finance has made an announcement that the laborers
will receive their bonus salary on 1 March.
The security for the upcoming elections will be complex as the
Interior Ministry will be dispatching 500,000 security forces and
14 Iraqi Army units. We can only be hopeful that the upgraded
security measures will be successful in having a violent free Iraq
election.
Other upcoming Security measures will be, closure of sea, land and
airports between 0000 on 7 March and 0500 8 March. I will add that
there will be a vehicle ban which is a given as they typically do
have one. The ban is to include motorcycles and animal carriages.
The Independent Higher Electoral Commission (IHEC) has approved a
total of 325 parliament seats. They include; 310 general seats, 8
for Christians, Ezidis, Shabak, Sab'iah and 7 national compensatory
seats.
The Vice President Abd al-Mahdi has stated that the IHEC has printed
an additional 7 million ballots and the IHEC did not give an
acceptable reason for doing this.
More to follow...
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UPDATE:
An error was made on the Iraq police salary it should be 90,000 ID
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/cpa/english/security/MOI_Info_Packet.html