"Benefits should be canceled gradually for deputies and officials. We have already rejected the right to free travel in public transport for deputies and their assistants," Andrei Isayev of United Russia's general council told a RIA Novosti press conference.
He heads the Duma labor and social policy committee and, in line with his status, has an office car with a flashlight.
United Russia is going to give up all the expenses on deputies financed from the budget, let alone their salaries.
In turn, United Russia's Nikolai Bulayev, head of the education and science committee, told the press conference: "Deputies should have only one mandate - all the payments to be made from their salaries."
United Russia deputies lamented that their salaries do not equal ministers', having the same status, and are going to submit this question for Duma consideration.
According to them, United Russia will start carrying through their plans to give up benefits in September.
