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In addition to the salary, the 66 local representatives are given 107 thousand pesos per month for their legislative activities
Omar Montalvo
Mexico City. – In it Mexico City Congress Each of the 66 deputies, in addition to the monthly salary they have for the representative position, receives an additional 1 million 286 thousand 160 pesos per year to finance their legislative activities, a budget that the current Third Legislature approved a few months after it began its functions.
In October 2024, a month after the current deputies joined, the local Congress approved an agreement to set the monthly budget support for each of the legislators. The CCDMX/CAOQCYAI/1A/001/2024 agreement states that each month the deputies must receive 107,180 pesos, which are broken down into 30,000 pesos for the lease of a property that functions as their citizen service module; 10,180 pesos in citizen operation expenses; 60 thousand pesos for the hiring of support personnel through the fee regime; and 7 thousand pesos as part of the monthly operating expenses. This legislative support budget amounts to an annual expenditure of 1 million 286 thousand 160 pesos for each of the deputies.
According to the salaries of Congress, the local deputies They receive a monthly salary of 72,612 pesos. In this way, the monthly cost of a single local legislator amounts to 179 thousand 792 pesos and the individual annual cost of each popular representative is 2 million 157 thousand 504 pesos.
The agreement also adds that every month the deputies must verify the use of these public resources and when any of the legislators do not present their receipts for two consecutive months, the money for their legislative activities will be withdrawn. These types of incidents have already occurred in previous years, such as in the Second Legislature, when the Internal Control Body detected that not all local deputies credited all the costs related to the operation of their legislative modules.
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