To former members of the Assembly Predrag Bulatović i Miodrag Lekić will be paid severance pay in the amount of 1.520 euros each due to their retirement.
As "Vijesti" unofficially learned from the parliament, they submitted the request for severance pay the day before retirement.
"Vijesti" was later officially told by the Assembly that on July 27, the Administrative Committee submitted decisions on severance pay for two deputies to the Bureau of Financial Affairs.
"The amount of severance pay in the amount of 17 calculation values is 1.530,6 euros gross, ie 1.525,5 net, tax 4,5 and tax surcharge 0,6 euros. The severance pay will be paid next week," the Assembly's reply states.
Lekić and Bulatović are entitled to severance pay due to their retirement according to Article 11 of the Law on Salaries and Other Income of Members of Parliament and Officials.
"The civil servant has the right to reimbursement of expenses for the right to severance pay due to retirement," the law states.
As Bulatović further explained to "Vijesta", due to his retirement, he is not entitled to standard twelve-month parliamentary allowances.
"According to the law, I have the right to receive severance pay when I retire, just like every employee in state bodies. It amounts to 1.530 euros," he said.
Bulatović has been a member of parliament since 1992. According to the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, his parliamentary salary last year was 2.058 euros. In the last convocation of the parliament, he was a member of the Committee for Political System, Judiciary and Administration, the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform, the Parliamentary Committee for Stabilization and Association (POSP) and the Working Group for Drafting the Law on the Parliament of Montenegro.
He started his political career at the end of the eighties of the last century. He was, among other things, the head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party of Socialists (1992-1997), the president of the Socialist People's Party (SNP), as well as a member of parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2001-2003).
Lekić is the leader of Demos and a former diplomat, and his parliamentary salary was 2.030 euros last year.
He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro from 1992 to 1995. He was the ambassador of the SFRY, FRY and SC, and then a university professor in Italy. He was a Member of Parliament from 2012 until the day before yesterday when the new convocation of the Assembly was constituted. In the previous convocation, he was the chairman of the Committee for International Relations and Emigrants. At the beginning of the year, he was the mandate holder for the composition of the government, but he failed to form it. Ten years ago, he was also a presidential candidate, but was defeated by DPS Filip Vujanović.
Before Demos, Lekić was the leader of the former Democratic Front (DF) from 2012 to 2015.
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