PAM to appeal against MPs pensions issue

PAM’s team within the House of Representatives will soon appeal against the MPs pensionary proposal before the Constitutional Court, following the termination of the House of Councillors pensions, which was unanimously approved by the second chamber.

In light of the controversy over pensions, including the state’s alleged contributions that exceeded 4 billion centimes, despite the difficult economic repercussions that public finances are going through as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Committee of Finance and Economic Development within the parliament has decided to postpone voting for the law until later.

The appeal against the law proposal by PAM’s team has been announced by the party’s political bureau, upon its meeting on Sunday, for the latter stated its “desire to assume its historical responsibility in regards to the issue.”

+ To involve the Constitutional Court judges in this important debate +

PAM Politburo members called on the party’s team within the parliamentary first chamber to use its right to appeal against the first law proposal on MPs pensions before the constitutional court.

According to the statement issued by its political bureau, the party aims to involve the Constitutional Court judges in this important societal debate to be able to identify the latter’s standing point in relation to public funding, for the court’s decision in this regard shall stand as a constitutional reference during MPs pension liquidating process.

It is noteworthy that Article 4 of the proposed law relating to the second chamber, as approved by the House of Councillors, stipulates that the liquidation of MPs’ pensions shall be carried out through “the disbursement of the total amounts that were previously deducted before this law’s entry into force, in addition to the financial proceeds accumulating since the beginning of the current legislative mandate, for they shall be distributed in proportion to the duration of each term.

The same source added that “after completing the process stipulated in (the 1st Provision), the remaining balance shall be distributed to beneficiaries, each according to his/her share of the pensionary total which was disbursed before the entry into force of this law”.