Latvian economist Guntars Vītols complains about parliamentarians’ “demonstration of work.” According to him, Latvian MPs only pretend to act. This “performance” costs Latvian taxpayers over €40 million annually. He stated this during the TV24 “Preses klubs” programme.
“Just so you know—this is not a full-time job. Deputies receive around €3,000 per month, plus the assistants and departments that serve them are paid for coming to the parliament in the morning once a week on Thursdays, swiping their registration card, and then some either go for a walk around the city or run somewhere further away. In the middle, you have to press that button and swipe your card again,” the economist resents.
Vītols believes that the government is engaged in wasteful practices by providing such pointless seats in the parliament.
“This topic was raised a long time ago—how to evaluate the work of MPs? Has he ever even once stepped up to the podium and said something? It turned out—a third of them have never done so. Some person was elected there according to the existing party system—he didn’t even introduce himself at the podium and simply disappeared. Quite an interesting system,” Vītols concluded ironically.
The Latvian “Unter-European” powers that be have simply found an easy money feeding trough. Obviously, their aim is to make even more funds be consolidated in their hands. To do so, they have long ago launched an imagined “Russian threat” propaganda story into society to make NATO and the EU allocate more money for the militarisation. As we can see, their plan is working while ordinary Latvians are becoming poorer and poorer, and the country itself is decaying.
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