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Pay rises for MPs. The Sejm adopted the law

  • The increases will also include president, ministers, voivodes
  • According to the adopted bill, the first lady will also receive salaries
  • The document was previously unanimously supported by the parliamentary regulatory committee

MPs Wojciech Maksymowicz and Michał Wypij (Understanding) abstained from voting. All Confederation MPs and some KO MPs, including Monika Rosa, Franciszek Sterczewski, Michał Szczerba, Klaudia Jachira and Tomasz Zimoch, voted against the increases. Grzegorz Schetyna abstained and Borys Budka voted in favor.

A draft appeared on the Sejm website at night “on the amendment of certain acts in the field of remuneration of persons holding public office and on the amendment of the law on political parties. “Thanks to the express pace, the deputies passed the law in second reading today.

The document was previously unanimously supported by the parliamentary regulatory committee. It means that not only PiS MPs voted for, but also the opposition.

33 MPs voted against the bill. They were: Tomasz Aniśko, Cezary Grabarczyk, Klaudia Jachira, Monika Rosa, Franciszek Sterczewski, Michał Szczerba, Małgorzata Tracz, Urszula Zielińska, Tomasz Zimoch (Civic Coalition), Magdalena Biejat, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, Daria Gosek-Popiołek, Maciej Konieczny, Paulina Matysiak, Adrian Zandberg, Marcelina Zawisza (Left), Jolanta Fedak, Paweł Kukiz, Paweł Szramka, Agnieszka Ścigaj, Stanisław Tyszka, Stanisław Żuk (Polish Coalition PSL-Kukiz’15), Konrad Berkowicz, Krzysztof Bosak, Grzegorz Braun, Artur Dziambor , Krystian Kamiński, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Jakub Kulesza, Dobromir Sośnierz, Krzysztof Tuduj, Michał Urbaniak and Robert Winnicki (Confederation).

The project provides for significant increases for the most important politicians. According to the act, individual officials will earn:

  • President: PLN 25 981 gross (currently PLN 12.6 thousand gross)
  • first Lady: 18 thousand PLN gross (currently without salary)
  • Marshals of the Sejm and Senate: PLN 21 984 gross (currently PLN 14 thousand gross)
  • Deputy Marshals of the Sejm and Senate: PLN 17 987 gross (currently PLN 12 thousand gross)
  • premier: PLN 21 984 gross (currently PLN 11 thousand gross)
  • ministers: PLN 17 987 gross (currently PLN 10.1 thousand gross)
  • deputy: PLN 16 988 gross (currently PLN 8 thousand gross)
  • provincial governors: 14 989 PLN gross (currently PLN 11-12 thousand gross)
  • wicewojewodowie: PLN 12,990 gross (currently PLN 11 thousand gross)
  • deputies and senators PLN 12 600 gross (currently PLN 8 thousand gross)

From now on, the key point of reference will be the basic salary of a Supreme Court judge. It will depend on her how much the most important officials in the country will earn.

A deputy or senator will be able to earn 0.63 of the basic salary of a judge The Supreme Court, so almost 12.6 thousand. PLN gross. This is an increase in relation to the current salaries of parliamentarians by over 40 percent. There will also be diets.

The president, prime minister, ministers and their deputies, marshals and deputy speakers of the Sejm, and even voivodes and deputy voivodes will also earn much more.

More for the party

But that’s not all. The annual subsidy for political parties will also go up significantly.

How will the raise be calculated? It’s very simple. The previous mathematical formula in the act on political parties was supplemented with “x 1.5”. This means that parties will receive 1.5 times more annually than today.

It will look like this:

  • PiS: PLN 34.9 million (previously 23.3 million)
  • KO: PLN 29.8 million (previously 19.9)
  • Left wing: PLN 17.1 million (previously PLN 11.4)
  • PSL: PLN 12.4 million (previously 8.3)
  • Confederation: PLN 10.2 million (previously PLN 6.8 million)

The decision to include this draft on the Friday agenda was made at the morning session of the Presidium of the Sejm.

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