Regional deputies absent when voting in the Assembly of the Sicilian Region will have to pay a 180 euros fine and the money will be withheld from their allowances every end of the month. Also 180 euros will be deducted from members of parliamentary committees who are absent when voting, although a monthly ceiling of 540 euros has been set in this case. Leave is also halved: it will be one and no longer two per month. These are the contents of the anti-absentee squeeze unanimously resolved by the Presidential Council. The new mechanism will be triggered by May 1, a symbolic date proposed by the Sicilian Regional Assembly President Gaetano Galvagno.
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