(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) nis April 19 - Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki announced the reduction in the President of the Republic's legal wage to one third saying that he "gave instructions to reduce the Presidency of the Republic's expenses as much as possible." "We are facing a financial and economic crisis. The state must be a model... That is why I have decided to lower the legal salary of the president of the republic to a third" of its current level President Marzouqi said in a statement during a ceremony marking the celebration of the 58th anniversary of the Interior Security Forces. The Tunisian economy has suffered from the instability that followed the 2011 revolution which toppled Zine Al Abidine Bin Ali and ignited the Arab Spring. Presidential spokesman Adnane Mansar had said that Marzouqi earned a gross monthly wage of 30000 Tunisian dinars (around 13600 euros) and a net income of 20000 dinars.
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