Nezavisne novine: The July salary of federal parliamentarians and members of the Government of the FBiH will be returned to the level from December, when it was between 1.400 KM and 1.800 KM and additionally reduced by 10%, has been informed yesterday from the Ministry of Finance of the FBiH.
By this, the question if the current salaries or the ones from December should be reduced, which after the increase from January this year are between 3.000 KM and 3.300 KM, has been solved. This way, the amount of reduced salaries will not be around 3.000, but around 1.600 KM. In the Ministry of Finance of the FBiH they have said that the calculation of salaries for all users of the federal budget has been finished, and that processing in the treasury is in the process, while a salary might be paid on Friday or Monday. They point out that there are no obscurities in the application of the Law on Savings, which says that the salaries are being reduced by 10% in relation to the ones from December.
Credit returned to banks
The Ministry of Finance of the FBiH has yesterday paid out around 153.9 million KM of credit to commercial banks and around 1.5 million KM of interest rates, has been notified from this ministry.
"The credit has been returned by the funds, which the FBiH has received from the IMF. The Union of banks has been consisted of the UniCredit bank, the Raiffeisen bank, the Intesa SanPaolo bank and NLB Tuzlanska bank", has been written in the announcement.
It has also been announced that the Ministry has paid out around 1.1 million KM for civil war victims for the following cantons: Sarajevski, Hercegovačko-neretvanski, Livanjski and Zapadnohercegovački, as well as the transfer for war veterans of Tuzlanski canton.
"The July calculations for all users of the FBiH budget have been finished in harmonization with the intention letter for the stand by arrangement with the International Monetary Fund and the Law on Savings. Everything is clear. Salaries will be reduced by 10% in relation to the level from December", we have been told in the Ministry of Finance of the FBiH.
After the dilemmas on salary reduction, and the standpoints that the Ministry of Finance of the FBiH should give instructions, in this ministry it has been said that this is not clear only to those, who do not know how to sum up two and two, and that there is no need to give any kind of instructions, because they have been given a long time ago.
The Prime Minister of the FBiH, Mustafa Mujezinović has said that the total incomes from December are being reduced by 10%, and that there is nothing unclear in that. "All has been limited by the figure adopted by the Parliament", Mujezinović has added. He has pointed out that he does not want to work for 1.600 KM while the prime ministers of some cantons receive 4.000 KM.
Safet Softić, chairman of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the FBiH, has yesterday said that there is a collision between the Law on Savings and the Law on Elected Officials. By the second one, the coefficient should be determined by three administrative commissions. He says that he has not been informed about their session.
"The Ministry of Finance of the FBiH should apply the law the way they think it should be applied. They give a final word", Softić has said.
Miro Lazović, delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliament of the FBiH and a deputy chairman of the Administrative commission of this house, points out that this chaos has been created by the Government of the FBiH after its conversation with the Union.
"It has come to changes in relation to the previous version of the Law on Savings. There have been changes of the paragraph 2, according to which the total amount is being reduced by 10%, so there is no need for salaries to be directly hit", Lazović has said. He has pointed out that the elected officials must carry a burden of crisis, and that the salaries must be reduced. He has reminded that the December salaries of delegates have been around 1.400 KM, ministers 1.600 KM, and prime ministers and chairmen of both houses of parliament around 1.800 KM.
Omer Vatrić, delegate in the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the FBiH, thinks that the Law on Savings should be respected and that he does not have anything against the reduction of salaries for delegates. He has said that, if abolishing the work in commissions, and reduction of food allowance get taken into consideration, incomes of delegates will be cut on half.
Ismet Trumić, secretary of the Government of the FBiH, has said that the dilemma on manner of calculating salaries will be solved at the telephone session of the Government of the FBiH, which he has announced yesterday, and that he expects a unified standpoint for all users of the federal budget. However, we have not succeeded to receive the information if the session has been held, and the Minister of Agriculture of FBiH, Damir Ljubić has said that nobody called him. Usually, for salaries and remunerations of around 7.200 employees in civil service authorities, which are being financed from the FBiH budget, around 205.4 million KM has been planned in this year.