Parliament has rejected a proposal to pay the First Lady an allowance, saying it was illegal. “The spouse of a president shall be enti...
Parliament has rejected a
proposal to pay the First Lady an allowance, saying it was illegal.
“The spouse of a president
shall be entitled to an allowance calculated at fifty per centum of the salary
and allowances payable in terms of section two to the president, reads a proposed
amendment to the Presidential Salary and Allowances Act.
"The spouse of vice president
shall be entitled to an allowance calculated at fifty per centum of the salary
and allowances payable in terms of the vice president."
The Financial Gazette reports that Finance Minister Patrick
Chinamasa removed the proposal after MPs strongly objected to it.
“He withdrew the
proposal after we had contested its constitutionality and that there is no legal
basis for the first lady to get an allowance,” said MDC chief whip, Innocent
Gonese.
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