When their term in office expires, the mayors will benefit from the same social guarantees as the persons holding public posts. More exactly, they will get a one-off payment equal to two basic salaries. Parliament gave a first reading to a bill to amend the law on the status of the local elected official and the law on the local public administration, IPN reports.

The bill authors, a group of PAS MPs, said the initiative aims to ensure social guarantees for mayors when their term in offices expires. The law on the local public administration says that when the tenure expires and in case of resignation or dismissal, the person holding a public post benefits from a one-off allowance equal to two basic salaries, if the special law that regulates the work of this person does not stipulate another type of payment. The law on the status of the local elected official provides that when the term in office expires, the local elected official is paid a one-off allowance equal to the official monthly average salary for the previous year.

“It was ascertained that the legal status and the work of mayor are regulated by two normative documents that treat the provision of social guarantees when the term ends in a different way. Given the complexity of the tasks, heavy workload and responsibilities of mayors, it is proposed that when their term in office expires, the mayors should benefit from a one-off payment equal to two basic salaries,” says the informative note to the legislative proposal. 

The bill is to be given a final reading.