Overview
- Delegates voted on Sunday, June 21, 2026, to approve a binding gross pay cap of €5,300 for the party’s Bundestag and European Parliament members with 65.5 percent support.
- The cap is tied to the public-sector pay scale and equals about €3,300 net for a single earner, compared with the current Bundestag salary of roughly €11,833 gross per month.
- The resolution requires most of the difference above €5,300 to be paid into party-linked social funds and asks state branches to create the rules that will put that transfer into practice.
- The text allows targeted exceptions and extra payments for MPs with children, approved care needs, or special financial burdens to avoid one-size-fits-all hardship.
- The vote follows weeks of internal debate and a letter from parts of the parliamentary group opposing the timing, and it makes the rule an internal party obligation rather than a change to public pay law.