Dr. Yusf Muhammad and Bahar Mahmood refused the retirement salary

Dr. Yust Muhammad, former speaker of Kurdistan Parliament and currently an Iraqi parliamentarian, with Bahar Mahmood, former Kurdistan Parliamentarian and currently an Iraqi parliamentarian, refused to receive the salary of their retirement in the Kurdistan Parliament.

In a statement which directed to Kurdistan parliament Presidency, Dr. Yusf wrote: according to different clauses of the reform law in the salary, concessions, and retirement in the Kurdistan Region, Number 2 of 2020, I, as a former speaker of Kurdistan parliament, haven’t done the deal of my retirement, and now I am an Iraqi parliamentarian, by this statement I inform you that I will not retire until I get all qualifications of my retirement.

Dr. Yusf has announced that he will refuse to receive the retirement salary of Iraqi Parliament and after finishing this term of parliamentarian affairs, he will become the university professor again.

At the same time, Bahar Mahmood, who is a former Kurdistan parliamentarian, send a statement to the Kurdistan parliament Presidency and said that she would refuse the retirement salary of Kurdistan Parliament.

The steps of the reform law have been implemented by the Financial Ministry of the Kurdistan Region Government, in which there is a clause refers that parliamentarian can refuse their retirement salary.