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Sulik Wants to Reduce MPs' Salaries By So-called Fico Levy
Monday 18 Octtber 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, October 18 (TASR) - The paypacket of an MP is to go down by the so-called Fico levy. "We're introducing the Fico levy that will amount to double the value of the deficit (in percentage terms)," Parliamentary Speaker Richard Sulik (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) said on Monday.
Sulik added that by virtue of this amendment to the Public Officials Reimbursement Act, total MP costs should drop by 10.13 percent in 2011. Costs for Bratislava-based MPs are to be lowered by 4.6 percent and non-Bratislava MPs by 3.6 percent.
Sulik thinks that by having their salaries derived from the state of public deficit, MPs will be motivated to pass only those bills that won't increase the public deficit any further.
Also, Sulik proposes to un-freeze MPs' salaries, as he thinks that having them frozen [a measure made by Robert Fico's government - ed.note] makes no sense. "This was the mentality of the former government," he said.
Furthermore, Sulik wants 10-percent cuts in MP's lump-sum compensations – a reduction from 70 to 60 percent for Bratislava MPs and from 80 to 70 percent for others. Sulik also proposes to shorten the five-month MP severance to only three months.
According to Sulik, his proposal represents a compromise solution, agreed upon after discussions with all the Coalition parliamentary caucuses. The proposal is set to be discussed at November's parliamentary session.
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