BRATISLAVA, October 18, (WEBNOVINY) – The Slovak Parliament will cut costs related to the activities of legislators by ten percent. Speaker of the Slovak Parliament and SaS leader Richard Sulik specified at his Monday’s news conference that parliamentary deputies’s income will shrink by the so-called Fico’s levy, which will represent twofold of the deficit. As the gap for this year is estimated at 7.8 percent of GDP, the levy will be at 15.6 percent.
Siimultaneously, Sulik plans to unfreeze salaries of lawmakers, which have been at the same level for two years. As the SaS boss explained the state obviously must curb its spending because the deficits the government of Iveta Radicova inherited from their predecessors have brought Slovakia on the Greek path. Flat compensations provided to lawmakers will also go down while expenditures for assistants and renting a deputy office will fall from the present EUR 2,500 to EUR 2,025. The severance pay for legislators will shrink from five to three monthly salaries.
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