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Deputies during the meeting of the temporary committee on the new rules of procedure of the National Assembly.
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Dispute in the committee on the rules whether the MPs should take money only from a bank
Do MPs receive a salary of over BGN 10,000? This issue was raised in the temporary committee for the drafting of the new rules of procedure of the parliament and ignited a dispute between the deputies.
The reason for raising the topic was a proposal by the chairman of the parliamentary group of “We continue the change” Andrei Gyurov. It states that MPs should receive their salaries only by bank transfer, not cash, as they can currently prefer.
“There is a large part of the deputies who receive over BGN 10,000. By law, this cannot be done by hand,” argued the idea of the chairman of the commission Nastimir Ananiev from the PP. According to him, he and his colleagues saw that there were deputies who took this amount.
A sharp objection came from several sides. “There are no such MPs. The speaker of parliament does not take that much,” said Hamid Hamid of the MRF.
“How did you look at the files of MPs? This is a bit of personal information ?!” exclaimed GERB MP Hristo Gadzhev, and Petar Petrov from Vazrazhdane also asked to see the information provided by Ananiev and asked where he got it from.
For his part, Ananiev changed his thesis. He had not looked at slips of deputies’ salaries, but made his own calculations. “If we do a short course in mathematics, you will see that in addition to the basic salary, in addition to membership in commissions, there is also a percentage for experience. People who have 30-40 years of experience take 30-40% above that. Tomorrow I will present to you and Gadzhev a calculation, “he explained.
The MP from DB Ivan Dimitrov was the first to oppose the proposal. According to him, there is no law in the country that would force someone to receive their salary only by bank transfer. “These texts are illegal. I want to receive them in cash. I do not have a bank account and I do not want to receive them in a bank account. There is no law that obliges a person to receive them by bank transfer,” he said.
In the end, MEPs rejected the proposal and did not amend these points.
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