El Salvador FMLN Crits
Deputy Pay
Presidential candidate
of El Salvador for the
opposition Farabundo
Marti National
Liberation Front (FMLN),
Mauricio Funes,
criticized the salary
raises of members of the
Legislative Assembly.
In the beginning of his
tour of the eastern
region as part of his
campaign for the
forthcoming general
elections in 2009, Funes
insisted that, instead,
the salaries of
teachers, police and
campesinos should be
increased.
He added, also, that
President Antonio Saca
has lacked the courage
to ask the deputies to
return the money.
On this matter, he
assured that FMLN
deputies would return
the money that would be
deposited in a common
fund of a public
institution.
Saca announced that he
would turn back the
legislative measure that
has been the source of
criticism.
The controversial pay
raise goes from 1,800 to
2,900 dollars a month.
The main electoral
contender against the
Alianza Republicana
Nacionalista is the
opposition FMLN that
promotes Funes for the
presidency and deputy
Salvador Sanchez, as
Vice President. |
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