Mayor Suspends Councillors’ Salaries In Hungary
- 9 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
Independent mayor Éva Tétényi has suspended payment of councillors’ honorariums from July due to Esztergom’s Ft 1 billion budget deficit, town hall press chief István H. Váczy announced on Friday.
The sum is nearly Ft 100,000 per head, or Ft 1.5 million a month. Fidesz caucus leader Balázs Steindl called the measure arbitrary.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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