Bajrami: We have 40m euros plus external financing for the cost of vaccine

Finance Minister Hykmete Bajrami has indicated how Government has taken on the basis several amendments to MPs from various parliamentary parties for the 2021 budget.

It has made it known that additional 40m euros have been envisioned for vaccines against Coddy-19.

She also said they have addressed amendments to the budgets of four municipalities, which did not have the budget at municipal assemblies.

The subx0>Crizia with the Cardi-19 pandemic will apparently continue in the first three months of 2021. We together were at the Commission for Boards and Finance, where several amendments that are as vital issues were approved. For example, we reflected the cost of the vaccine that hasn't been injected into the budget, because by the time we prepared the budget they haven't been approved vaccines. That means there are 40 million plus external financing for the cost of the vaccine in order to buy doses for all citizens of the country. We have also addressed amendments to the budgets of four municipalities, which did not have the budget at municipal assemblies. And several other amendments which passed with approval of the commission's deputies and we were forced to find resources”, she said.

It urged MPs not to proceed with other amendments because it will not be possible to be implemented due to budgetary limits they have

Iron Murati, chairman of the Commission for Business and Finance, said they were hired as a commission to recommend the Parliament to rely only on amendments it has passed on the Commission, because there is not enough time.

There are about 138 amendments that are without commission support. We as a commission taking into account the situation we are in is unanimously agreed to the commission members to consider only some of the amendments that we have calculated may be essential in order to pass the budget. The rest, on the other hand, are allowed to be reviewed and determined according to the priorities that may be in review. So to avoid a situation where reviewing 150 amendments one by one takes more than 3 days, but also at the session and to avoid the situation when the Constitutional Court's act can be published and the country can go to the elections without an approved budget agreed on as a commission to recommend the Assembly without any other intervention only with amendments that have received the support of the”, he said.