{"id":27016,"date":"2020-06-15T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/?p=27016"},"modified":"2021-04-22T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:57:23","slug":"rsd1-4-billion-for-mps-money-goes-even-to-inactive-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/rsd1-4-billion-for-mps-money-goes-even-to-inactive-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"RSD1.4 Billion for MPs, Money Goes Even to Inactive Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The piece of rock of \u201cthe land of Serbia\u201d of Dveri<\/em> MP Bo\u0161ko Obradovi\u0107<\/strong>; the opposition\u2019s boycott; MPs representing the Serbian Progressive Party <\/em>to whom the parliament often served as a place for singing praises of Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 <\/strong>and a fierce showdown with their political opponents; the pink underwear Serbian Radical Party<\/em> MP Milorad Mir\u010di\u0107 <\/strong>\u201cdrew\u201d at Minister of Transportation Zorana Mihajlovi\u0107<\/strong>; Progressive Party MP Dubravka Filipovski\u2019s <\/strong>business trip to Strasbourg and her broken English in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; the torn suit jacket of Marijan Risti\u010devi\u0107<\/strong>; voting at the ring of a bell; hunger strikes and counterstrikes \u2013 these are just some of the events that marked the last makeup of the National Assembly.<\/p>

All at the expense of Serbian citizens.<\/p>

MPs, according to the law, are entitled to certain privileges \u2013 if they are not from Belgrade, the Assembly will pay them to stay at a hotel rated less than five stars, to rent an apartment or pay for fuel if they arrive in their own car. For the duration of parliament sessions, they do not pay for parking their vehicles in three public garages, nor do they pay for public transportation, although very few use the latter anyway.<\/p>

How much did an MP from your city or town earn?<\/h2>

On this link<\/span><\/a><\/span> you will find a database containing the salaries, MP supplements, accommodation, transportation, and business trips in the country and abroad for 402 MPs who occupied seats in the parliament from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The database can be browsed by first and last name, party and place of residence of an MP.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>A database of MPs\u2019 expenses created by the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia <\/em>(CINS) shows that in the period from early 2016 to late 2019, 402 MPs passed through the parliament. More than a billion dinars was paid for their salaries and MP supplements, close to 290 million for fuel if they arrived by car to parliament sessions or committee meetings, 6.3 million for renting apartments or hotel rooms in Belgrade, while just over 102 million was spent on the cost of business travel abroad. To reach these conclusions, CINS journalists analyzed the data they had received from the Assembly, which did not include payments for Serbian Progressive Party<\/em> official and Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic. Read more about that HERE<\/a>.<\/p>