Mexican Congress Plans to Pay Million-Peso Bonuses to Members, Lawmaker Says Agencia EFE
go to original August 13, 2014

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MEXICO CITY - The lower house of Mexico's Congress plans to pay each of its 500 members a "performance bonus" of 1 million pesos ($76,000), Congressman Ricardo Monreal said Tuesday.

"This is abusive" because "the country cannot withstand so much corruption," Monreal, a member of the leftist Citizens Movement, told MVS radio.

The bonus proposal was presented on Aug. 7 to the lower house's Administration Committee, Monreal said.

The budget drafted by the Programming, Budget and Accounting Administration calls for a 30 percent increase in the Chamber of Deputies' budget, which would rise from 6.79 billion pesos in 2014 to 8.82 billion pesos in 2015.

The document calls for spending increases in several areas, such as human resources, but "the most serious, the most delicate, the most immoral, the most irregular thing" is the proposal for a "performance bonus" of 500 million pesos ($38 million), or 1 million pesos per lawmaker, Monreal said.

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