Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) the law, and therefore, if he has to charge “more than Pedro Sánchez”, who receives 90,010 euros per year.
“The inhabitants of Lanzarote and La Graciosa will be the ones who determine my salary because I have not come to create problems but to solve them,” said the president of the Cabildo in an extraordinary plenary session that the island corporation held on Tuesday, as reported by the aforementioned institution in a statement.
“It is true that they come to work with an economic guarantee and that is why I maintain the remuneration of the vice president and the advisers of the Government group and the opposition, but if Oswaldo Betancort will earn more than Pedro Sánchez it will be because Lanzarote and La Graciosa they deem it appropriate,” he said.
The president explained to the plenary that a consultation will be opened through the website of the Cabildo de Lanzarote Data Center and it will be a “transparent” voting process with a period of 48 hours for the population to choose between several options according to the law and thus can freely cast the direction of the vote.
Citizens must decide between the 104,000 euros maximum that is allowed; earn one euro more than the official with the highest salary; receive the 92,000 euros that the Law establishes as the minimum for a president of an institution with a population of more than 150,000 inhabitants or a salary on the lower scale, which would be for a Council of less than 150,000 inhabitants and, therefore, 87,000 euro.
The plenary session has agreed to leave on the table the points referring to the agreements that proceed on the remuneration of the Corporation, per diems for assistance to the collegiate bodies or the economic endowment to the political groups, according to the note. EFE