On June 8, the Hungarian Parliament unanimously voted for a bill to reduce the salaries of deputies by almost 40%, as well as to reduce state funding for factions. This was reported by the Hungarian online publication Telex with reference to parliamentary data.
All 189 deputies voted for the bill, which the leading party Tisza submitted on May 28 – without a single vote against or abstention, the publication writes.
After the elections in Hungary, the leader of Tisza, the country’s newly elected Prime Minister Peter Madyar, promised to “put an end to the previous wastefulness” and, through changes to the law on parliament, to significantly reduce state support for people’s representatives and factions.
Telex notes that currently the salary of a Hungarian parliamentarian is tied to the average salary in the country and is three times its size. After the changes, this coefficient will be reduced to 1.8: the monthly payment will be reduced from 2.18 million forints (about $7,093) to 1.31 million ($4,256) before taxes, that is, by more than $2,800.
