SDA Club: Ruling coalition again increases salaries for ministers and parliamentarians by a total of almost 1,000 KM

(Patria) - Instead of harmonizing reform laws, the ruling coalition at the last session of the Council of Ministers agreed to increase their already excessive salaries for the second time in this mandate, it was announced from the SDA Club of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament.

"At the beginning of the mandate, by adopting the decision to increase the base for salary calculation from 535 to 600 KM, they ensured an increase in salaries for the members of the Presidency of BiH, ministers in the Council of Ministers of BiH, and parliamentarians by more than 600 KM. To achieve this, they rejected the SDA's Bill on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions, which would have limited salary growth and prevented enormous incomes for overpaid officials.

The Council of Ministers of BiH went a step further at its last session, adopting a decision on a new increase of the base to 631.50 KM, but without legal amendments that would allow for salary growth exclusively for the lowest-paid civil servants, which in practice will mean a new increase in officials' income by about 300 KM, or almost 1,000 KM since the beginning of this mandate.

The SDA Club in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament has already submitted for procedure the Proposal for Amendments to the Law on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions, which would allow for salary increases for civil servants, military personnel, police officers, and other permanent employees of BiH institutions, but not for the highest-paid officials at the state level," it was announced.