The newly elected Speaker of the Parliament, Darko Pajović, gained the right to a privileged pension by being elected to that position, even though he will preside over the Assembly only until the elections in October.
According to the Law on Prevention of Corruption adopted last year, the Head of Parliament, the Prime Minister, and the President have the right to preferential pensions before fulfilling the conditions established by the regulations regulating pension and disability insurance for all other citizens.
Pajović will thus have the right to a pension in a little more than four months in the position of Speaker of the Parliament, the basis of which is the net salary earned by the head of the Parliament at the moment when the current or former official decides to retire.
Pajović's net salary should be around 2.000 euros, which is the same amount as the recent President of the Assembly, Ranko Krivokapić, whose net salary in April was 2.222 euros.
"For public officials, the pension amounts to 65 percent of the established base, increased by 2 percent for each additional year of pensionable service," the Law on Prevention of Corruption states. According to the Law, the amount of the pension cannot exceed 85 percent of the pension base. This means that Pajović is entitled to a pension of at least 1.300 euros, and if he has at least ten years of service, it could be as much as 1700 euros. Pajović earned 1.433 euros in April.
These provisions were inserted into the law by the amendments of DPS deputy Željko Aprcović, which were adopted without discussion in the parliamentary committees, after the discussion of the law in principle and before the final statement of the deputies.
According to the law, Filip Vujanović, Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović, Igor Lukšić, Ranko Krivokapić, Svetozar Marović and Vesna Perović, and the families of the late Željko Šturanović and Rista Vukčević have the right to such a pension. The law stipulates that public officials who have been in office since 1992, or their family members, have the right to a preferential pension.
After the guilty plea, Marović will lose his pension
Svetozar Marović could be left without the right to a preferential pension. The Law on Prevention of Corruption stipulates that officials who have been legally convicted of corruption and organized crime remain without the right to such a pension.
"In the event that a public official is found guilty by a final court decision and punished according to the law for criminal acts with elements of corruption and organized crime, he loses the acquired right to a pension obtained under this law," the Law states.
Marović signed an agreement with the special prosecutor's office in which he admitted that he was the head of an organized criminal group in Budva, with multimillion-dollar damages. The agreement needs to be confirmed by the court.
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