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Gustavo Bolívar also pointed out in La W that it was an “aberration” that heCongressmen will earn more than 100 million pesos without working, more in a time where the country is suffering from unemployment and low wages due to the pandemic.
“We work 8 months a year, we rest a month, we get paid; it’s fine, a month’s vacation is fine, and then we work from July to December; We go on vacation for 3 months and they pay us too. That is, plus the premium we have, we received 13 months’ salary and worked 8. […] Today we are on vacation until March, and we earn more than 100 million pesos for those 3 months without going to Congress and without working ”, reproached the senator.
Likewise, Bolívar, who was outraged by the increase in the salaries of parliamentarians by almost two million pesos, said on the station that congressmen earn 40 times more than an average Colombian worker, but they earn 40 times more, just working 8 days a month.
In that sense, the also librettist said that the way to prevent this from happening is to approve a project is to pay those who attend by plenary session and commission.
“That would add up to a salary of 25 million pesos, working 8 days a month,” he added.
However, Bolívar assured, the same congressmen who said they were not going to accept the salary increase (referring to those from the Democratic Center) are the ones who They have sunk projects to prevent their salary from increasing.
And it is that a few months ago the project collapsed so that the congressmen were not paid 14 million pesos of representation expenses, while they meet virtually.
The increase in the salary of the congressmen, which was more than 34 million pesos, not only caused outrage in the common workers, who were offered to increase the minimum wage by 23,000 pesos, but also in politicians and celebrities.
One of them was Humberto de la Calle, who called a virtual mobilization for the congressmen to renounce the increase.
Should the salary of the congressmen be raised?
Several reproached President Iván Duque for signing the salary readjustment for parliamentarians. However, the increase was due to a constitutional rule.
Alberto Carrasquilla, Minister of Finance, indicated for his part that the increase in the salary of congressmen was percentage less than the increase in the minimum wage for 2020.
What Carrasquilla omitted in his statement was that the increase in the minimum wage for 2021 may be much lower, in percentage terms, compared to with what it was for 2020.
Congressmen will also receive almost 20 million pesos retroactively
With the readjustment of the salary that Duque signed, a retroactive that will be added from January of almost 20 million pesos, which will be received by the parliamentarians, also remained firm.
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