Legislators fight over RD$50,000
It seems that the Congress doesn’t get over one scandal before it enters another, and now the issue is the salary paid to the honorable legislators that is facing off senators and deputies for the difference of RD$50,000.
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Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) legislator Euclides Sanchez is questioning the fact that deputies earn a higher salary than the senators. He ignored the social fund also known as the little barrel that these legislators handle and that reaches between RD$10 and RD$18 million a year for each senator.
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Because of the difference in wage with the deputies, Sanchez urged Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez to increase the salaries of the 32 senators with funds from the senate budget in order to bring the two salaries into line or for the Chamber of Deputies to reduce the salaries of its members.
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Sanchez said, This creates a problem, because we pay [...]
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