No Freeze on MPs Salaries, House Rejects Opposition Proposal to This Effect

Bratislava, April 16 (TASR) - No freeze will apply to MPs' salaries, as Parliament has rejected an amendment to the law on the rules of procedure submitted by the opposition 'Slovakia' party. The party proposed that the salaries of MPs, their assistants and their expenses for running an MP's office should be frozen at the level set in 2024. It proposed putting a freeze on the president's salary as well. "We view any increase in the salaries of MPs or the president as immoral in the current economic situation in Slovakia. "It is immoral that MPs and the president should have higher salaries when they have scrapped several social measures for ordinary people and burdened them with higher taxes," 'Slovakia' MPs wrote in an explanatory report. In line with the law, an MP is entitled to a salary of three times the average monthly salary in Slovakia for the previous year. The salary of an MP in 2024 was set at €4,076 per month. ko/df