Constitutional reform: public service pay and independent judiciary

In about 2012, after lambasting the ‘Cadillac lifestyle’ of the PPP/C regime, focusing upon the salaries, pension and other tax free benefits to which former presidents were entitled, the opposition in the hung parliament that resulted from the 2011 national elections sponsored and passed a resolution in the National Assembly calling for substantial reductions in those benefits and promised to make its recommended changes if it ever came to government.

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