2023-11-22 19:06:00
Herman De Croo, former MP and President of the Chamber, was the guest of RTL info Signature. Caught in the scandal of excessively high pensions, the Prime Minister’s father speaks for the first time on this subject which “really damaged“. “I suffered psychologically“, he adds.
“First thing, the system is not a pension, it is an exit allowance“, begins by specifying the 86-year-old man. “This system was created 52 years ago by a President of the Chamber, Achille van Acker (also former Prime Minister of Belgium, editor’s note). Since then, we have not changed the system despite all the laws that have come into force. I knew there was an allowance for the Speaker of the House“.
He was therefore well aware of this bonus, but not that it was too high: “No, no“, he swears on our set.
“The sheet that I received from the Chamber indicated that the ceiling (which limits the bonuses received, editor’s note) did not apply to the president’s departure compensation“. Herman De Croo therefore claims to have discovered at the same time as the scandal broke that he was in the wrong. “I paid everything back, including the taxes I paid“, still assures the politician who receives a pension of “approximately 6,200 euros gross“.
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