24 April 2024,   13:54
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Parliament starts considering 2019 budget

The adjusted version of the 2019 budget will be discussed at the Finance and Budget Committee today. In the course of this discussion, it will be clear whether the Ministry of Finance has taken into consideration the remarks of the deputies associated with the targeted expenditures. The volume of budget is about 13 billion, and it has increased by 350 million compared to the previous year. According to the project, the next year priorities of the government will be health and social trends, education and infrastructure.

"Growing funding for health care programs, increasing financing at the Ministry of Education. Infrastructural projects in school, "said Irakli Kovzanadze, Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee of the Parliament.

The opposition is not going to support the main financial document. The MPs think that the government has not even deminished bureaucratic costs.

"The fact is that this budget will continue to be used for unnecessary expenses. Bureaucracy. It"s a budget that in the end, will have a negative impact on the macroeconomic climate of the country and this is one of the sources of price rise and depreciation of Lari, "said Roman Gotsiridze, member of UNM.

"European Georgia" stemming from the draft budget does not expect strengthening of the national currency rate.

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