translated from Spanish: MPs lower senators’ salaries and say there is no backdrop

The Chamber of Deputies approved reducing the senators’ salaries, so that legislators from both chambers earn the same.
According to Reforma, the diet of senators is currently 105 thousand pesos, and for the next year it will be 74,548 pesos, which is what deputies currently receive.
With this, according to the newspaper, both senators and deputies will earn one million 148 thousand pesos a year.
“We’re going to win the same thing. What we are gaining now, the more inflation will be what the senators also earn,” said Morena deputy Pablo Gomez, who promoted wage adjustment.
The chairman of the Committee on Budget and Public Account, Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, said that the measure aims to end the “legislative aristocracy”.
“Before the senators’ higher wages are because they were old and were going to retire and were given there to keep the rest of their days, but they are in good health. It used to be seen that the Senate was a kind of legislative aristocracy, an aristocracy of legislators, but that’s already from the previous regime, we’re already in another regime,” said Ramírez Cuéllar.
The coordinator of Morena’s senators and chairman of the Senate Political Coordination Board, Ricardo Monreal, suggested that a faith of errata correct the change to the diet of senators.
However, Deputies of Morena pointed out that there would be no such.
“Tell the Executive not to publish the Budget, there’s no other. We can’t do anything, what happened is over, we’re talking about already approved things,” Pablo Gomez said.
“Senators were earning more than mPs, but it’s unconstitutional because the Constitution states that both lawmakers are equal, have the same responsibilities, and they’re of the same power, we’re peers,” he added.
The coordinator of the PRI senators, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, protested the cut, which would mean that senators earn 425 thousand pesos less per year.
“They don’t have to get into the Senate and down the diet,” Osorio Chong said.
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Original source in Spanish