PPP to table motion to annul salary hike

THE People’s Progressive Party Civic said that it will be tabling a motion to annul the recent salary hike approved by the government for Cabinet ministers, and parliamentarians. In a release yesterday evening, the PPP said at a meeting its Members of Parliament held to prepare for the October 22nd sitting of the National Assembly, it was unanimously decided that PPPC MPs will not be accepting the salary increases, as stated by the Leader of the Opposition at a public event at Red House on October 7th, 2015. “Indeed, a motion shall be laid in the National Assembly seeking to annul the unconscionable and astronomical salary increases that the APNU+AFC Cabinet gave to themselves. Furthermore, the meeting decided that it will also table a motion calling on all MPs to make public their tax returns to the GRA over the last 10 years. It was also decided to submit both of these motions prior to Thursday, October 22, 2015 sitting.”

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