Ricardo Morgado, PSD member, is the Portuguese MEP with the highest annual extra-parliamentary income: €68,892, according to the declaration of private interests submitted to the European Parliament.
Lamego Municipal Assembly President Ricardo Morgado was one of three Social Democrats who took office in April this year after the departure of Paulo Rangel, Maria da Graça Carvalho and José Manuel Fernandes, who joined the new government.
Vasco Emanuel Vinagre Becker-Weinberg from CDS comes in second place with an annual income of 30,800 euros, according to the terms of the declaration of paid professional activities carried out in parallel with the parliamentary term, and other interests such as participation in companies. or partnerships. The President of the Portuguese Institute of Maritime Law, Becker-Weinberg, is a professor at the NOVA Law School in Lisbon and took up this position in March 2023 after the election of Nuno Melo to the Assembly of the Republic.
Social Democrat Carlos Coelho records the third highest extra-parliamentary income: 12 thousand euros.
Carlos Coelho has been in the European Parliament since 1998, first being elected in 1994 when he left office to take up the position of Under-Secretary of State for Education under Manuel Ferreira Leite in Cavaco Silva’s third government.
Other Portuguese MEPs are the economists José Gusmão, Bloch de Esquerda, with 1,200 euros, and Lidia Pereira, PSD, 332 euros, as well as Sandra Pereira, PCP, 14 euros, a linguistic researcher at the University of Lisbon, all elected in 2019. with annual extra-parliamentary income declarations among 21 national representatives.
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Lithuanian businessman Viktor Uspaskich, founder of the populist Darbo Party (Labour Party), elected since 2014 and implicated in several fraud and corruption cases, has the highest extra-parliamentary income of all MEPs: €3 million per year.
Independent French MP Jérôme Rivière has the second-highest income, with €220,248, followed by another MP, also not a member of any political group in the European Parliament, Hungarian László Trocsányi, with €143,950.
Of the 705 MEPs, 26.02% declare annual extra-parliamentary income, with an average of 47 thousand euros and a total value of 8.7 million euros, according to a study of individual declarations published on Monday by Transparency International.
The monthly gross salary of a Member of the European Parliament is €10,075.18 gross, which corresponds to €7,853.89 net.
Author: SATURDAY
Source: CM Jornal
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