Do you know how much Sebastião Bugalho, Marta Temido, António Tânger Corrêa, João Cotrim Figueiredo, Catarina Martins, João Oliveira and Francisco Paupério will earn if they are elected MEPs?
As European Parliament elections take place from the 6th to the 9th of June. The goal is to choose the 720 deputies who will make up the hemicycle in Brussels. To the Portuguese voters must choose 21 MEPs who will participate in the elaboration of community policies between 2024 and 2029. lists of candidates for MEPs are already known and have fueled controversy, either because Sebastião Bugalho was chosen to lead the AD list, or because Pedro Nuno Santos chose to refresh the socialist list and not suggest the re-election of any of the current MEPs.
Some deputies of the Assembly of the Republic, such as Marta Temido, Francisco Assis and Ana Catarina Mendes, just to name a few examples, have a guaranteed election and will exchange the national Parliament for Berlaimont. An exchange that will represent a significant increase in your monthly salary.
O The base salary of a Member of the European Parliament is 10,075.18 euros gross. But this amount is subject to a European Union tax and insurance contributions, which reduces the maturity to 7,853.89 euros net. In some cases, such as in Portugal, MEPs also pay taxes in their countries of origin. MEPs’ salaries are gauge the salary of a judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union — correspond to 38.5% of the same.
MEPs also receive various subsidies to cover expenses related to the exercise of the mandate. They have support of 4,950 euros for expenses in the Member State in which they are elected, such as office rental, computer equipment and software, office supplies, cell phones, mobile service subscriptions and Internet subscriptions. In other words, the costs of managing the deputy’s office. “The lump sum is used to safeguard the independence of the mandate and because this form of payment is the most cost-effective”, explains the European Parliament.
They still have right to reimbursement of the actual cost of travel to attend European Parliament meetings in Brussels and Strasbourg, upon presentation of the respective receipts. But there are limits: the price of a plane ticket in business class (class ‘D’ or similar), the price of a train ticket in first class or 0.58 euros per kilometer for car travel (up to a maximum of one thousand kilometers).
End of term allowance
At the end of their mandate, Members of the European Parliament are entitled to a reinstatement allowance, equivalent to one month’s salary per year in office, for a maximum period of two years.
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