Ex-Deputates P D-LSI, which burned the mandates, up to 2022 with a monthly salary of 650 euros

Former Democratic Party and Socialist Movement for Integration, which issued mandates in March of this year, under the political strategy to bring down the government-Rama 250 and to come to power, will be paid from the state budget by March 2022, that is, until a year before the upcoming parliamentary elections.

For three years, from the month of the mandate burn to 2022, former PD-LSI delegations will be paid 50 percent of the gross reference wage. The MP's gross monthly salary, according to the last reports of the Parliament's spending, is 156,770, which means former opposition lawmakers will receive each month without working, 785 euros, or about 650 euros a month. Also, once the Central Election Commission has formalised the removal of the mandate, former PD-LSI deputies have won two monthly salaries.

Concretically, each MP has benefited 313 440, or about 3 thousand USD. For all these benefits, opposition deputies have been recognised by a letter signed by Parliament Secretary-General Genc Gjonchaj, several weeks after the mandates were burned.

Also, former Democratic Party delegations, but especially the Socialist Movement for Integration, have accepted and benefited diets, money for fuel spending and phone after abandoning the Assembly and signed the surrender of the MP's mandate. Law-based benefits reject claims by several DP-LSI representatives that burning mandates was also a sacrifice act to join citizens as equals.

Legal Basis

Article 20 of the MP status law, recently amended in 2013, predicts the MP benefits the right of transitional payment and supplementary pension under law No. 7703, the date 11.5.1993 “for Social Security in the Republic of Albania” with later changes and fulfillments and Law No. 8097, the date 21.3.1996 “for state supplementary pensions of persons performing constitutional functions and of state employees” with subsequent completions.

Meanwhile, law for no. 8097, the date 21.3,1996 for state supplementary pensions of persons performing constitutional functions and state employees, divides officials into two large groups, as far as the level of benefits are concerned. MPs are included in the first group, the point of '%bʹ, which includes members of the CEC, members of the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court, the Ombudsman, the head of I LDKPKI and leaders of the main institutions in the country.

The Measure of Benefit

Article 7 of the law on state supplementary pensions of persons performing constitutional functions and state employees, at the head of the transitional payment, predicts that persons of the first group, mentioned at the “b” base of Article 1, after leaving the post, are given two monthly operating salaries, and after these salaries receive 50 per cent of the gross salary, as long as they have worked in such positions, but not more than 3 years from the moment of leaving the function.

It envisions benefiting all former PD-LSI deputies, who handed over the mandates, except those who became deputies for the first time in 2017, who will be paid as long as the MPs were.