in front of the provincial council building in protest against the policies of Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki and cutting the salaries of employees and retirees of the region , calling the region's president , Massoud Barzani "by strong positions " toward Baghdad policies .

“Hundreds of residents demonstrated in front of Dohuk provincial Council to " denounce " the policies of Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki and cut the salaries of employees and retirees of the region ,” the member of Dohuk provincial council , Salem Badhira said in an interview with " Shafaq News “.

He added that the demonstrators raised slogans expressing their "full" solidarity with the position of regional president, Massoud Barzani on the financial crisis " made up by Malik’s government ," noting that “ they are demanding the leadership of the region with stronger position to respond to the issue of cutting salaries.

Barzani had said last Thursday during his participation in the funeral of 93 bodies from Barzan family whose bodies had been found in the desert of Samawah last year , as the Kurdish people will not change his freedom with anything , stressing that the if Iraqi government continues in its approach against the region, it will be have unexpected position".

Kurdistan Region is suffering from financial scarcity that causes stop in paying salaries to employees , while officials in the regional government accused Baghdad of being deliberate in not paying the region 's financial allocations to pressure it in order to achieve political and economic gains .

Kurds say that Baghdad is applying the economic blockade policy and obscure their money to pressure them to abandon plans to export oil from its fields.