5 hours agoLDK Vetevendosje won't vote for 2018 budget
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo will not vote on the budget bill for 2018 on the day when this bill is expected to be voted into the Kosovo Assembly's first reading session.fo. This, according to them, lacks budget connections in relation to the country's economic growth. [...]
This, according to them, lacks budget connections in relation to the country's economic growth. The opposition even estimates that the latter is virtually no different from the 2017 draft.
Dardan Moliqaj, deputy and member of the Commission for Business and Financa from the Vetevendosje Movement ranks, says of apparitions.info that a difference has occurred within two months in which, according to him, the draft budget of 2018 has been spoken differently and already when presented at the Commission, other figures appeared.
He has said that for this reason Vetevendosje will be against this budget.
Until this difference in two months is so big there's such a huge disarray of our non-compliance with the division that the Vetevendosje Movement has made to its draft budget, of course it will be against”, Moliqaj said.
According to him, there are gaps in planning for economic growth towards the programme the government has presented and draft budgets.
“Project budget of 2018 doesn't change anything from the 2017 design except for the change of figures, voices are the same, we have growth somewhere where those increases have generally occurred in some of the sectors that are important but are negligible growth. Among other things, there are reductions in planning for economic growth to the programme the government has presented and draft”, Moliqaj has said.
The Democratic League of Kosovo has also been declared against this draft budget.
Lumir Abdixhiku, deputy and chairman of the Kosovo Democratic League Commission and Finance, has said they are against this bill and will not vote on the day it will be brought to the first reading session.
You saw that at the meeting where the draft budget bill was reviewed for 2018 we voted against it and that's our” position, He told Obadiah about a bear.
Next year's budget bill is meant to be over 2 billion euros, which is expected to generate economic growth of 4.6 %.
Under this ATK-inflow bill, there will be 446m euros, meanwhile, Kosovo Customs is expected to realise a billion-euro inflow of 175m euros.
In this bill, wage and hire expenses will total 589m euros or 4.3 % more than in 2017.
For subsidies and transfers, the bill has been earmarked to spend 525m euros, while on capital expenditures of 687m euros.
