The draft of pay rises for politicians voted by the Sejm caused a real storm. The Civic Coalition, which together with PiS voted “for” is particularly criticized. Now the decision will be made by the Senate.
Meanwhile, subsequent KO deputies are trying to explain their support for the bill. After Barbara Nowacka and Izabela Leszczyn, Magdalena Filiks spoke on this matter.
“I would like to apologize to those of you who I have failed humanly – my voters. I am fully aware of the trust that many of you placed in me last fall. It was a great honor – greater than the mandate in parliament. I know that I will not change what I do. you felt and nothing will change it, but I apologize from the bottom of my heart, “we read in the post on Facebook.
“I returned to Warsaw the night before the sitting of the Sejm. In the morning I woke up with a very high fever and, thanks to Małgosia Kidawa Błońska’s help, I was quickly taken to the hospital. I did not enter the Sejm anymore. As we have a technical possibility of remote voting, and there were a lot of voting that day, I made the wrong decision to take part in the voting remotely from the hospital “- wrote the MP.
“I did not care about it (and this is a great shame for me today) to approach my work honestly and read the project. I relied on the scraps of information (as I know today) that I received. I apologize for that too, because this is not what you expect from your representative “- admitted Filiks.
“Of course I might not have voted at all – which would have had no impact on the result of these votes, but it is a serious mistake what I did when I approached my duties without due diligence. It was me who, due to the fever and hospitalization, failed to fulfill my duties. that it costs nothing to put my cell phone aside. Nobody told me to do it – probably nobody even expected me to do that “- he explains.
“Lots of advisers today advised me not to write it and admit it and simply not react, because it will not change anything and it will pass. Regardless of the fact that it will not change anything, the word I am sorry for being disappointed. people who felt disappointed because of me and with my attitude. It is an important lesson for me and a valuable lesson for the future “- concludes the member of the Civic Coalition.
How much will the salary increase for parliamentarians?
386 MPs voted in favor of the bill providing for an increase in salaries for MPs and local government officials, 33 were against, and 15 abstained.
They voted against the project: 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. The reference will now 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.
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)
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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