The mayor of Benidorm proposes to freeze the salaries of politicians and advisers

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, has proposed to the Board of Spokespersons to freeze the salaries of the members of the Corporation and their advisers of the City Council during the year 2023, thus renouncing "the increase of about 4% approved by the Government of Spain”. In the Board of Spokespersons held this morning, the mayor has anticipated to the opposition groups "the express resignation of the PP government to that rise" and that "we hope that it will also be attended by all the political groups of the Corporation".

Toni Pérez has recalled that "both in 2021 and in this 2022, politicians and advisers of Benidorm City Council renounce the successive salary increases dictated by the Government of Spain so that 2023 will be the third consecutive year of wage freeze".

The mayor has indicated that "with runaway inflation and with energy prices at historic highs, there are many families and companies that are going through moments of great difficulty and we understand that in this context it is not acceptable that the members of the Corporation and the advisers benefit from a salary increase that, on the contrary, politicians from administrations such as the Generalitat Valenciana or the Government of Spain have accepted.”

Finally, he stressed that "although politicians and advisers renounce this salary increase", it "is obviously guaranteed for the municipal staff of the City Council, both civil servants and temporary workers, applying as of January 1 and thus complying with what established the General State Budgets”.

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