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§ € 5.5 million for overtime allowances of the civil servants assigned to them

§ € 5 million for their participation in the summer parliamentary sessions

§ € 5 million for their cars

§ € 3.2 million for their trips

And this is what each of the Greek deputies receives:

§ € 5.800 - 6.100 monthly salary

§ € 150 allowance for participation in any meeting of parliamentary committees

§ € 1,500 per year for office expenses

§ € 1,000 per month for mobile phone calls

§ 65 air tickets for deputies from the country

After the fierce social protests and the slogans of the Discontented against them, the deputies decided to deprive themselves of their comfortable luxury cars and agreed to replace them with smaller ones. Limos are expected to disappear within a month. The costs for deputies’ vehicles are almost € 5 million per year, € 1.5 million less than last year. The deputies are only obliged to pay for petrol, and not for annual vignettes, insurance and maintenance of the vehicles. So, the deputies from Athens and Piraeus will have cars with 1400 hp, for which Parliament will pay a monthly rental of € 750. Their counterparts from the country will have cars with 1800 hp and their monthly rental will amount to € 1,200.

Parliament employees, most of whom are the children, relatives and friends of parliamentarians, cost the budget just as much. € 60 million have been earmarked for their salaries for 2011. This amount includes the salaries and social security of 1,343 workers with permanent and unlimited contracts, amounting to almost € 38 million. Approximately € 21 million are allocated for the salaries of research assistants assigned to the deputies and for the salaries of the employees with limited contracts.

In addition to the salary cuts, all government officials, parliament employees were deprived of 8 per cent of the overtime and transportation allowances and are not granted Christmas and Easter allowances. Those who have high salaries said farewell to 50 per cent and the lower paid – to 50 per cent of the special allowance for the beginning and end of parliamentary sessions, and those amounts are already taxed, something that has never happened before.