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More than $ 3 million are monthly allocated to pay the salaries of Legislators
Posted On 12 May 2017
EcuadorNews:
The current legislative administration that concludes today, with Gabriela Rivadeneira (AP) at the lead, has a labor load of 1,281 officials, who represent a state investment of more than $ 3 million per month. This money dilutes in paying legislative servants and the salaries of 137 Legislators.
548 people work as collaborators assigned to each Legislator (4 each), and there are 65 officials working in the permanent specialized commissions.
Apart from the Secretariat of the General Administration, which has a staff of 200 employees, the Secretariat of Communication is the one with the highest number of employees: 118 people.
Likewise, this department is divided into the departments of Strategic Communication Management (17 employees); the Coordination of Legislative Media (4); Radio Management (17 people); Television Management (29 employees); Content Management (22 people); Social Media Management (10 people); Institutional Image Management (9 people), just to mention a few.
Another of the departments populated by legislative servants is the Citizen Participation Council, which employs 81 people in the following areas: management of citizen participation, legislative school, management of the legislative school, legislative houses in 24 provinces, including Pichincha, seat of the Legislature; And two houses abroad in Spain and in Manhattan, US.
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