The budget of the parliament was adopted last Friday, but it was never released. This year, 875 million will be allocated from the budget for the maintenance of the Verkhovna Rada. hryvnias. During the economic crisis, the estimate increased by 135 million compared to last year, despite the pre -election promises of reducing expenses due to the difficult situation in the state. By the way, the neighboring Poland of this year reduced the financing of the state apparatus.
Valery Dudko, political scientist: you can wonder and say that the crisis has passed Ukraine. Because to increase the total expenses of the deputy corps by 100 million, and at the same time observe the empty seats, you can not understand what difficulty we are — taxpayers are forced to pay deputies who are currently so heroic in the Verkhovna Rada, with this, the coefficient of useful action and those, those who once sat and occupied a chair in BP. The budget adopted by the Verkhovna Rada was seen by neither the deputies nor the public. On the parliament website, only the draft resolution was posted.
Igor Polishchuk, political scientist: again the opaque nature of the adoption of this decision, that is, the society is confronted with the fact. Almost a billion is already worth us a year. But journalists managed to get a document from their own sources. So, the main article of the Parliament budget is the remuneration of the deputies. This year, taxpayers of 450 chosen ones will cost more than 100 million.
Sergey Berenda, Economist: Every citizen is thinking, here he is going to the store, he buys, for example, to hryvnia — from this hryvnia he paid taxes. That is, every fifth hryvnia spent by you in the supermarket is the taxes that you paid to the country’s budget. It seems to me that many citizens do not understand that they thereby fill the budget, and they must ask from our government — report what you have done.
The average salary of the deputy is more than 17 thousand. hryvnias. The same amount will receive as compensation for expenses related to the fulfillment of powers. Plus, allowances for the «special nature of work and labor intensity», prizes and annual material assistance for recovery. Whereas the average salary of an ordinary Ukrainian does not exceed the mark of two thousand hryvnias. The average taxpayer also provides former deputies — 137 million were allocated in the parliament estimate. The section «Autobase» is also provided. Its content will cost 33 million hryvnias. For comparison — a little less in the state budget is the article «Computerization of educational educational institutions».
Valery Dudko, political scientist: there are such public organizations that not only control the activities of deputies, but also control what is adopted by the deputy today. Today we have a situation when nothing is discussed with the people at all. And this is the lack of a mechanism for pre -viewing those benefits that the deputies appoint themselves and suggests that we have chosen the wrong development path.
Political scientists assure — Ukraine should adopt European experience where the activities of people’s deputies are controlled by public organizations.
