This is information that had shaken public opinion: with indexation, Belgian Ministers might earn up to 10,000 additional euros gross per year. An indexation which inevitably made react, whereas the households, in particular, undergo the effects of a continuous inflation.
This Sunday, the program It’s not every day on Sunday wondered regarding this indexation and the legitimacy of salaries in politics. Last week, Mathieu Michel revealed to earn between 14 and 15,000 euros net. On our set, Maxime Prévot, President of the Committed, and Denis Ducarme, Federal Deputy for the MR, defended the idea of a freeze on ministerial indexation.
“The highest salaries should not be subject to indexation, or else it should be made degressive, and here, we should not allow the salary increase of Ministers”, has for example launched Maxime Prévoit, who explained to us that he earns 8,500 euros per month. “I believe that the political environment, in general, still earns too much money”replied Denis Ducarme, obviously on the same wavelength.
For him, it is even necessary to make considerable efforts, to preserve both the political image and to show real financial sobriety. “I’m not sure that it’s on the indexation that we should do it. I would prefer that we say that the Ministers will earn as much less, the deputies as much less. At some point, we will consider that those who are in the middle class also earn too much and that they must also be indexed, that I am wary of. I would prefer that we deduct part of the salary of politicians rather than play on indexation “, he detailed. Regarding his salary, he places it around 6,000 euros per month.
For Maxime Prévot, in favor of the idea, the concrete impact of such a measure must however be qualified. “We would say” we withdraw 2 or 3,000 euros from these bastards of ministers”, as we sometimes hear in the street, that would represent two million euros, or 25 cents per year for the inhabitants. That’s not it which will solve the problem of their bills. We need sobriety and an example value on the part of politicians, it is essential, but let’s make sure to put a price shield to help households “he detailed.
