The Parliamentary Commission of Economy discussed the budget today, with
the opposition considering the reduced expense as unprecedented. But
the majority say the reason for this is reducing the government debt.
The Democratic Party MP, Sherefedin Shehu: “Next year the budget spending will be 4 billion ALL lower than this year. On the other hand, they claim there is an economic growth”.
“The deficit for 2016 has been foreseen to be 34 billion ALL, or 2.2% of the GDP.
“The entire corpus of financial laws comes in Parliament with a reduction for the first time after so many years. The same thing happens when the revenues are planned with a growth”, Brace said.
The Democratic MP, Jorida Tabaku, declared that the only good new of this budget is that taxes are not raised that much, but they will still be higher.
There have been strong debates about the social transfers, through which the government saves the categories in need.
“20.5 billion ALL are foreseen for the economic assistance, but don’t forget that we have removed those who were included in these lists by the former government for political reasons”, said the Minister of Finances, Shkelqim Cani.
Sherefedin Shehu: “You say you are cleaning the lists, but you simply want to justify the lower social budget. This budget is even lower than that of this year”.
The majority had to answer not only to the opposition, but also to the critics coming form their own. Erjon brace wanted to underline the fact that the government loan for the next year is 2.2% of the GDP, while investments are 6%”, Brace underlined.
The budget of 2016 is the first one to implement the new territorial reform by transferring a series of public services and functions to the local government.
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