Budget, on December 28th, in Parliament

Among several debates, the Parliament passed today the discussion agenda for the draft-budget 2014,     according to a proposition of the Head of the Commission of Economy, Erjon Brace.

According to this agenda, the financial draft-laws will have two days for discussion, respectively in principle for every article.

The session for passing the budget of 2014 is only three days before the New Year.

The opposition declared that it should be postponed to January, but the Majority refused.

“This is unprecedented. It has never happened that the budget comes in Parliament by the end of December. The laws for increasing taxes have not been seen in this parliament for the past 14 years”, declared the former Minister of Finance, Ridvan Bode.

“Don’t pretend you don’t know the economic situation. We didn’t bring it, but we found that among you. You let incomplete investments, you left the disabled without money. I can go on forever. This situation and the high political responsibility of the new government has the duty to find a solution now. And this is more important than the date”, declared the Parliamentary Group leader of the Socialist Party, Gramoz Ruci.

“We left you the money for the disabled, but you used them. You are now leaving the administration without the New Year’s bonus. This has never happened”, Sali Berisha declared.

But the head of the Socialist Party Parliamentary Group reminded 2009, when without any objective reason, according to him, the government passed the budget on December 26th.