MPs salary cut by 10 per cent – Russian newspaper

MPs salary cut by 10 per cent – Russian newspaper

State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin suggested to reduce the deputies themselves salaries in connection with the forthcoming review of the Duma adjustments to the budget of the country for 2015. The proposal he made at the Council of the State Duma.

As said the first vice-speaker of the lower house of parliament, Ivan Melnikov, deputies immediately responded to the proposal, “mainly positive”. According to him, the State Duma understand that “everywhere there is a reduction of the budget – all organizations”.

“In a crisis, we are going to reduce the cost of the State Duma on 10 per cent as well as the costs of any other government agency” – said vice-speaker of the State Duma, Andrei Isayev (“United Russia”). According to him, the party hopes that the reduction in income will occur not only in the State Duma, but in the ministries, departments, as well as public corporations. “The crisis should be used by us in order to restore a more equitable distribution of income” – Isaev said.

The head of the faction “United Russia” Vladimir Vasilyev told journalists that the reduction of salaries of deputies will be discussed separately with each parlamentariem- “United Russia” and will be voluntary. But in general, “people are ready,” he said.

But some of the “United Russia” still skeptical. So, the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Rules Nadezhda Gerasimova, by his own admission, does not see the resources to reduce the salaries of deputies, which is now an average of 340 thousand. Rubles. According to her, now the salary of the deputy “exactly twice, if not more, lower than that of any deputy minister”.

In the parliamentary opposition objection to the proposal speaker not. Moreover, Vice-Speaker of the State Duma from the LDPR, Igor Lebedev said at a fraction willing to make a greater reduction than 10 percent. Compared with ordinary Russians deputies receive too much, he argues.

“The elite should be shared by all the consequences of the crisis experienced by the population, so the objection in principle we do not have,” – said, in turn, the first deputy head faction “Fair Russia” Mikhail Emelyanov. He also proposed to revise the Duma costs for new equipment, repair, and so on.

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