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Despite the dilemma over the funding of the new wages scale, the salaries hike wasn’t limited to public sector employees but also reached the salaries and compensations of the three top presidential posts of the country, the ministers and the parliament members, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday. [Source]
Accordingly, the top 3 presidential posts will have an increase of around 6,200,000 LL while ministers and MPs will have an increase of around 4,300,000 LL.
Seriously? Is that the appropriate time to give raises to MPs and ministers? The funny thing is that the Economy and Trade minister is actually justifying this move, saying “the raise was equally distributed between everyone”. Couldn’t he have exempted high officials, MPs and Ministers from this law? How hard could it be?
Two months ago, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Lebanon’s outlook from stable to negative mainly due to its high public debt burden and large current account deficit. Instead of trying to cut down costs, we now added $1.2 billion for our state treasury to cover.
Seriously!!!!
haram as if their salaries are not high enough they need a raise tsk tsk tsk!
Everywhere else politicians are getting cuts except in Lebanon because we’ve got a lot of extra money lying around. I guess the 1.2 billion that was going to the power station is now being split up among the politicians. Who needs electricity!
They own half of the country and they want a raise?
VOTE FOR THEM NEXT ELECTIONS!!! You will I know. 😀
Or vote for their descendants if they retire (khalaf khallaf khalaf-allah ta yekhelfo , tole3 khalifet khara kess okht li khallafo)… And hey don’t forget to keep raising ur political colors high up in the sky and sing tara tatata!!!