Budget Committee rejects amendment to cancel 37% salary increase for prosecutors

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget rejected amendments that proposed to cancel the 37% increase in prosecutors' salaries, which would have meant an additional UAH 3 billion in the budget. This was reported by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, UNN reports.

"At the insistence of MPs from the relevant committee and the First Deputy Prosecutor General, Mr. Khomenko, and the head of the Council of Prosecutors. The Budget Committee still rejected the amendment that removes the increase in prosecutors' salaries by almost UAH 3 billion. This is a 37% increase," Zheleznyak wrote. 

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Thus, amendments No. 155, No. 999 and No. 1000, which proposed not to increase the salaries of prosecutors by UAH 3 billion and were taken into account and recommended by the working group, will not be adopted. 

In fact, the Committee agreed to raise prosecutors' salaries in the 2025 budget.

Voting: "In favor - 14, abstentions - 4, against - 1.

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