Senate in favour of lowering earnings of MPs

The Senate passed an amendment to the Act on Performing the Duties of Representative and Senator, which would cut salaries of MPs by 20 percent. The wages of representatives and senators will be equal to 80 percent of undesecretary of state's salary. Fifty eight Senators voted in favour of the amendment, one was against and two abstained. According to the legislation's authors, the change in the MPs salaries is a result of "public expectation regarding the earnings of MPs" and "it will have a positive social and economic impact"