On Thursday evening, the Sejm’s regulatory committee adopted a bill providing for an increase in salaries for people holding state leadership positions, including parliamentarians. According to the proposed changes, a deputy or senator would earn 0.63 of the basic salary of a Supreme Court judge. This means that he will be able to count up to 12.6 thousand. PLN gross plus diets. For deputies, it will be a salary increase of over 40 percent. in relation to current earnings.
Today the draft was presented in the Sejm by Jarosław Zieliński, PiS MP. As he emphasized, the salaries of parliamentarians were reduced in 2018. At that time, the average salary in Poland increased. – His [projektu – red.] the goal is to try to make the salaries of persons holding managerial public functions more realistic, he stated.
The debate on the project was accompanied by a stormy discussion. An emotional speech was delivered by the KO MP Klaudia Jachira. – It is known that serving in an authoritarian party and getting rid of all values costs money and nobody doubts that you are not doing it for free – said the deputy.
Ryszard Terlecki, Deputy Marshal, who was leading the meeting, decided to comment on her speech. – MEP, there is no solution to stupidity, so I did not interrupt you – said the PiS politician.
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Big emotions in the Sejm. “It’s not even two average salaries”, “how can you even come up with such an idea?”
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