Popular Demonstrations In Baghdad and Other Provinces

Baghdad / NINA / The capital Baghdad and a number of Iraqi provinces have witnessed popular demonstrations, demanding to cancel the salaries and privileges of members of parliament and members of local councils as well as the three presidencies (Cabinet, Parliament and the Republic). The correspondents of the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) in Baghdad, Kirkuk Qadisiya, Nasiriyah, Najaf, Fallujah and Babil said that the demonstrators set off from the main squares in the provinces and gathered in front of the local councils, waving Iraqi flags and holding banners, demanding the abolition of the big salaries and privileges enjoyed by parliamentarians and members of local councils and those with special grades . It is mentioned that security authorities in the capital, Baghdad arrested on Saturday morning, the coordinator of the August 31 demonstrations in Baghdad and a number of other demonstrators. / End