Palma.One of the tasks recently allotted to the Budget Control department of the new regional Partido Popular government has been to investigate the particularly high salaries which were paid to many senior figures of the previous Socialist coaliton.
The audit is taking place along with investigation into the financial management of other public companies and institutions where salaries appear to be outside existing legal guidelines.
Auditors, working in conjunction with legal advisors, are claiming that salaries afforded to leading figures in the coalition led by former Balearic President Francesc Antich don't comply with salary recommendations laid down in the 2010 and 2011 budgets.
Not only had Parliament ruled that annual pay for directors of public companies should not exceed 52'043 euros, but auditors are now suggesting that there were senior figures in the Socialist coalition who didn't have their pay cut by 5% as had been ordered in an across-the-board austerity measure imposed by Central Government. The present Balearic government will set out a procedure in order to recover overpaid salaries from former government employees.
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