In the last five years, the Prime Minister's salary has increased by 500 euros, while the salaries of the Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro are 700 and 900 euros higher. The Prime Minister's salary was the highest in 2016, when then Prime Minister Milo Đukanović earned over two thousand euros a month.
According to data published on the website of the General Secretariat of the Government, Prime Minister Duško Marković received 1.945 euros in September of this year, while five years earlier his predecessor Đukanović earned 1.470 euros per month.
The salaries of the Vice Presidents of the Government also increased, so the salary of the Vice President for Regional Development, Rafeto Husović, was increased from 981 to 1.600 euros.
The Deputy Prime Minister for Political System, Internal and Foreign Policy Zoran Pažin receives 1.650 euros, while Marković in the same position in 2013 received 1.000 euros per month.
The salary of the vice president for economic policy and financial system, Milutin Simović, was less than 1.900 euros in September, while Vujica Lazović earned about 1.000 euros in that position five years ago.
According to the data of the General Secretariat, members of the Government received the highest salaries since March 2016, when Đukanović received 2.222 euros per month as Prime Minister.
Marković, as vice president, earned two thousand euros at the time, and Lazović one hundred euros less.
Around 2.000 euros were also the salaries of Husović and Marija Vučinović, who at that time also held the position of minister without portfolio in the government.
Azra Jasavić, an official of Pozitivna Crne Gora, also held the position of president for a short period, whose salary was around two thousand euros at the time. Milorad Vujović, the Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of Electoral Trust, received that much.
The increase in salaries for Montenegrin officials followed after the parliament, in early 2016, supported changes to the Law on Salaries of Public Sector Employees, on the basis of which state officials' salaries were increased by 800 to 1.000 euros.
A year later, as part of austerity measures, the Government proposed new changes to the Law, which reduced wages by eight percent. Salaries were then reduced for members of the Government and their advisers, the president of the state and parliament, as well as judges and state prosecutors. As a cost-saving measure, the government then also abolished compensation for mothers of three or more children.
According to the data published on the website of the General Secretary, the salaries of advisers to the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister have also increased in the previous five years.
For example, Acting Prime Minister Dragoljub Bulatović's chief of staff received 1.246 euros in September, while Rajko Kovačević, as Đukanović's chief of staff, received 664 euros.
Đukanović's advisors at the time, Živko Andrijašević and Anđela Čelebić, received 926 and 618 euros, respectively, five years ago.
In the previous five years, the salaries of the advisors of Vice President Husović, who received around 2013 euros in 600, have increased, while their earnings now amount to around a thousand euros. Advisor salaries were the highest during 2016, when the Prime Minister's chief of staff received 1.528.
The General Secretariat has recently been announcing the salaries of members of the Prime Minister's Cabinet and Deputy Prime Ministers, as well as employees in that government service. The data are from 2013 to September of this year.
DPS and SDP, Husović and Vučinović did not give a single cent of the salaries for the party
Government members from the Democratic Party of Socialists and the Social Democratic Party were the only ones who regularly paid party membership fees from their salaries. According to the data of the General Secretariat, the president of the DPS allocated around 36 euros for the party, while Vujica Lazović, then as the vice-president of the SDP, paid 32 euros.
The then Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lukšić helped the party with 38 euros per month, while Duško Marković allocated 33 euros. At that time, Lukšić was the vice president of DPS, and Marković was a member of the Presidency.
With a special decision on the amount of membership fees, the elected officials of DPS at the state and local level are obliged to allocate three percent of their net earnings every month. The decision also stipulates that officials who represent the party in administrative committees, councils or boards of directors must set aside seven percent of their salary per month. The Law on Financing of Political Entities stipulates that party membership fees may not amount to more than 10 percent of earnings.
According to the salary lists, Husović did not set aside any membership fees for the Bosniak Party of which he is the leader, nor did the president of the Croatian Civic Initiative, Marija Vučinović.Ročen's salary is slightly lower than that of the vice president
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Milan Roćen, as an advisor to the Prime Minister, received the highest salary in 2016, when his monthly salary was 1.887 euros. At that time, Roćen earned less than 200 euros less than the Deputy Prime Minister. According to the same data, Roćen, as Đukanović's adviser, received 795 a year earlier.
During 2015, the current director of the Police Administration, Veselin Veljović, received 683 euros as the secretary of the National Security Council, and then 1.374 euros.
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