The parliamentary salary of fugitive Nikola Gruevski for the next six months will be reduced by five percent due to his unjustified absence, it was decided today at the coordination meeting of the heads of parliamentary groups in the Macedonian parliament.
As reported by the local media, the salary reduction of five percent or 3.000 denars per month for unjustly absent MPs is prescribed by the Rules of Procedure of the Macedonian Parliament.
At the meeting of the heads of the parliamentary groups with the vice-presidents and the speaker of the parliament, Talat Xhaferi, it was agreed that after half a year of unjustified absence, the proposal to revoke the parliamentary mandate of Gruevski, who fled to Hungary to avoid serving a prison sentence. This is provided for in Article 65 of the Constitution of Macedonia, but in the second attempt to deprive the former prime minister of his parliamentary mandate, a two-thirds majority of 80 deputies will be needed, which the ruling coalition failed to secure last week.
At that time, 58 deputies of the ruling coalition voted for the removal of the parliamentary mandate, while 29 deputies of the opposition VMRO DPMNE, the party of which Gruevski was a long-time leader and is now the honorary president, voted against it.
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