Institutions of BiH are without any doubt the most desirable employers in the country. Especially the parliament, where salaries are enormously high, and results of the work are quite modest. The costs of holding their sessions are enormous, and citizens of BiH paid about 290 000 BAM for yesterday’s session of the House of Peoples.
Regardless of how many laws are on their agenda, salaries are guaranteed to our parliamentarians. Even they are aware that their salaries should be reduced.
“Honestly, I do not think that it would pass in the Parliamentary Assembly since a lot of colleagues are here for the last time and I do not think that they would vote for a reduction of their income,” said Mario Karamatic, a delegate of HDZ at the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
A new attempt to reduce privileges is the abolition of jubilee awards to elected officials, which are paid after 10 years of work, in the amount of an average salary.
“I guess that the fact that they are working in the parliament for years is rewarding enough to be satisfied with their income,” said Mirsad Mesic, a deputy of SDP in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
A member of the state parliament earns around 200,000 BAM in four years of mandate, just on the basis of salaries, which include them on the list of the most paid parliamentarians in Europe.
And in order for the high salaries in BH institutions to be reduced, we have been waiting for years for a unique solution of the Law on salaries that should be proposed by the Ministry of Finance.
(Source: N1)
