Limit the treatment of proxies: Madrane will submit it to the presidents of the assemblies

The president of the Brussels parliament Rachid Madrane (PS) will bring the issue of reducing the salary of elected officials to the presidents of the country’s assemblies, Brussels media platform Bx1 said at noon on Friday. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Thursday delivered a note to his team in which he proposes to reduce the salaries of members of the government by 8% starting from 2023. The expected revenues for next year would amount to 456,000 euros.

The aim of the proposal is to moderate the impact of indexation.

For the legislative power, the institutions benefiting from an endowment and the political parties, it is proposed to reconfirm in 2023 and 2024 the savings of 1.11% required in 2022. The expected income in 2023 is estimated at 3.7 million. EUR. For the allocations to political parties, budgets could be frozen at the level of September 2022, for an estimated revenue in 2023 of 1,998 million euros.

Political parties and members of the chambers are also advised to initiate reflection and to adopt similar measures.

Message received five out of five by the president of the Brussels parliament, Rachid Madrane (on an official trip abroad on Friday), according to Bx1. The latter has indicated that he will put the item on the agenda of the Conference of Presidents of the Assemblies of which he will assume the presidency in a month. Mr. Madrane says he wants to harmonize the positions of all the assemblies.