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Groisman: Government not to boost MPs wages in 2017 State
24.10.2016 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
While sharing an interview with the ICTV channel on Sun evening, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groisman said the Government wouldn’t support the proposal of MPs concerning raising wages for members of Parliament and wouldn’t plan such an increase in the State budget for 2017, Government Portal reports.
«We do not support a recommendation to boost almost twofold the salary to MPs. We believe that such changes are in fact not timely and cannot take place presently,» Groisman said.
«There is not a single word in the Budget about twofold raising of wages for MPs. It is a decision of the Parliament. The parliamentarians made such an amendment to the Ordinance and the Ordinance contains that. That is actually the Parliament that lifted restrictions for itself, but these restrictions could not be financed as there is no resource within 2016 Budget, and there is no doubt that the Government won’t back such two-times increase for next year as well. I think thats fair,» the PM admitted.
As to the report, the PM also noted that urgent issues to focus on include larger wages for the Ukrainian citizens as well as boost of minimum pension, changing the pension system. The Government is working on this issue, he said.
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