Deputy Says Salary Is Not Enough, Asked His Wife To Work

Mazhilis deputy Bakytzhan Bazarbek said the issue of raising lawmakers’ salaries is unlikely to be raised in the coming years, Orda.kz reports.

According to Bazarbek, he does not make such decisions, but in the current economic situation, raising deputies’ salaries would look “not quite reasonable.”

I think this issue will not be raised in the next five years,the deputy said.

He also said that a deputy’s salary is no longer enough, given rising prices and high expenses for children. According to him, salaries range from about 500,000 to 900,000 tenge, and some parliamentarians have large families.

Some of our deputies have five or six children. Taking a child to kindergarten or to a club, buying shoes and clothes — that alone costs around 300,000. And with food prices rising, even a million is not enough. I, for example, receive about 900,000-something — personally, it is not enough for me. That is why I asked my wife to work too,he said.

Original author: Ilya Astakhov

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