MPs urged not to vote on Government's proposal for overcoming budget deficit

The chairman of the Commission for Business and Finance, Iron Murati, has urged MPs not to vote on the government's proposal for change and temporary overcoming budget deficit fiscal rules. Since the same one has not been passed to the commission that oversees the state finances.

Murati at the plenary session on Thursday said the amount of 250m euros in deficit growth is not justified.

“We have come to the conclusion as a commission that demand is not based and justified enough to justify the deficit growth of 6.5 per cent. And the figure translates 485m euros, taking into account that the until-day impact of budget revenues has been only 85m euros. So we're dealing with an additional 400m euros in demand of which about 150m euros have been, allowed and the other 250m euros have not been justified. As a result, the commission has cast it in the vote, and the proposal has not received enough votes. So it is recommended to the assembly not to vote on this proposal”, he said.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Hykmete Barjam in her reaction to the commission's chairman, said such a decision-making proposal has been in the Kurti government.

She stressed that if the emergency package is to be implemented, it should be allowed to become this surplus and budget deficit change.

A decision, such proposal-making, has brought the government Kurti. You know that the package of fiscal emergency has not been implemented overall, precisely in the absence of finances. There have been no budget plans for managing pandemic”, she said.