Hollande and his ministers salary down 30 percent

French President, Francois Hollande, and members of the new government have adopted on Thursday a 30 percent reduction in their salaries, in fulfillment of one of the promises the socialist launched during the election campaign. "If elected, not frozen on, but I'll be down the salaries of the president and his ministers by 30 percent," Hollande said in the months before the presidential elections, which swept to victory against Nicolas Sarkozy and former, candidate of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Based on a decision taken at the first Council of Ministers, the gross salary of the 34 departmental charge will increase from 14,200 to 9,940 euros per month, while the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, and will experience lower Hollande own respective Salary 21,300 to 14,910 euros, according to data collected by means Gauls. The measure shall enter into force immediately as the government will wait for the legislative elections next month. However, the governmental spokesman, Najat Belkacem Vallaud-clarified, to be retroactive and therefore begin to run "from the May 15" date of the investiture of Hollande. The first decision the new Cabinet ministers will leave today with a salary less than that of members of the previous government, which still continue to grow in the state and receive monthly for six months more money than their predecessors.