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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-12-14
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[01] Parliament president rules out backdated salary payment to ex-MPs
[01] Parliament president rules out backdated salary payment to ex-MPs
AMNA / Parliament President Filippos Petsalnikos on Monday stressed
that he would personally refuse to sign for the payment of backdated
salary claims by more than 100 former MPs, even if these were awarded
by the courts.
He pointed to past Parliamentary decisions saying that the equivalent
salary increases to judges did not have any bearing on the salaries
of MPs.
In order for MPs to receive pay rises in line with judges, there
had to be a joint decision of the finance minister and Parliament
president, Petsalnikos said, while ruling out all chances that this
would happen. www.amn.gr
On the contrary, he pointed out, he had personally proposed and
Parliament had agreed to total salary cuts for MPs that exceeded 45
percent a year, in the last two years.
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