On 6 October, MP Falih al-Khazali, head of the Muntasirun bloc (KSS — parliamentary bloc), demanded restoration of PMF Service and Retirement Law No. 40 of 2016 to the Commission’s previously submitted form, without deletions or substitutions, and alleged that the government had changed it. Sabereen News (KH — affiliated/aligned media) also carried MP Alaa al-Haidari’s proposal to delete and amend provisions and alleged removal of retroactive effect from 13 June 2014, disaster-response duties, expanded special leave, the volunteer-service department, the intellectual-counterterrorism department, the contracts directorate and the military appeals court. Former Hikma Movement MP Hassan Fadum, speaking on Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media), separately said the Staff College and al-Muhandis Company might have been removed and asserted that the pension bill had reached parliament.
- Sabereen NewsKH — affiliated/aligned media06 Oct, 21:21
“MP Falih Hassan al-Khazali: We demand that PMF Service and Retirement Law No. 40 of 2016 be returned to the form previously sent by the PMF Commission, without deletions or substitutions.”
النائب فالح حسن الخزعلي نطالب بإعادة قانون خدمة وتقاعد الحشد الشعبي رقم (40) لسنة 2016 إلى الصيغة التي أرسلتها هيئة الحشد الشعبي سابقاً، دون الحذف والاستبدال.
- Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibiKSS — affiliated/aligned media06 Oct, 21:28
“The government changed the proposed law sent by the Commission, and we do not know who changed it or why.”
الحكومة غيرت مقترح القانون المرسل من قبل الهيئة ولا نعلم من غير عليه ولماذا؟
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media06 Oct, 21:52
“The Staff College and al-Muhandis Company may have been removed from the provisions of the PMF law... Our information confirms that the PMF pension law was sent to parliament.”
كلية الاركان وشركة المهندس ربما رفعا من بنود قانون الحشد ... معلوماتنا تؤكد إرسال قانون تقاعد الحشد إلى البرلمان
The disagreement concerns the bill’s operative content, beyond general support for passage; the alleged changes span legal effect, personnel rights and institutional structure.