MPs Didn't Approve Proposal on Life Annuity for Prosecutors in Revote

Bratislava, 18 June (TASR) - Parliament has voted against adopting an amendment to the Act on Prosecutors and Legal Aides to the Prosecutor's Office, which also dealt with a life annuity for the prosecutor-general. The new regulation will therefore not apply. MPs discussed the amendment again after it was vetoed by President Peter Pellegrini. Of the 148 MPs present, no one supported the amendment, while 70 opposed it and 78 abstained. Although Parliament accepted the president's comments and changed the prosecutor-general's entitlement to a life annuity from serving four years in office to serving a full term, MPs didn't support the law in the final vote. The president had sought to delete the prosecutor-general's entitlement to a life annuity, or at least to modify it so that he would only be entitled to it after a full seven-year term. The draft amendment also spoke of modifying the conditions for "ordinary" prosecutors to be entitled to early severance pay and a life annuity. Prosecutors should have been entitled to a life annuity after 20 years in office. The level of the pension should have depended on the number of years of service as a prosecutor. am/df