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Yulia tymoshenko pleased with approval of amendments to state budget
31 July 2008
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Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko positively assessed the voting in the Verkhovna Rada on passing the law on introducing amendments to the 2008 budget. This was during a briefing yesterday in the Verkhovna Rada.
“Perhaps for the first time in the last few months the politicum of Ukraine was able to unite to help the people and solve a number of problems that currently exist in the country,” said Yulia Tymoshenko.
The Prime Minister thanked all the deputies for their work in preparing a single draft law and unanimously voting in favor of it. “We obtained resources that will allow us to compensate people’s material losses and fix roads. The fact that the vote was unanimous is significant,” she stressed.
Commenting on the fact that a compromise draft law that took into consideration proposals by the President and opposition was put to vote, the Prime Minister stated that while only the government has the right to submit changes to the budget, most important was the vote approving the budget changes.
“According to the Budget Code, Constitutional Court decision, and law on environmental emergency situations, only the government has the right to introduce amendments and supplements to the budget,” she noted, “But the government believes that our job was to pass amendments to the budget. After we overcome the damage form the natural disaster we will fight against the fact that the political forces are possibly violating the Constitution.”
Tymoshenko also noted that water is receding in Western Ukraine and there are “no reasons for the natural disaster to continue.”
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko positively assessed the voting in the Verkhovna Rada on passing the law on introducing amendments to the 2008 budget. This was during a briefing yesterday in the Verkhovna Rada.
“Perhaps for the first time in the last few months the politicum of Ukraine was able to unite to help the people and solve a number of problems that currently exist in the country,” said Yulia Tymoshenko.
The Prime Minister thanked all the deputies for their work in preparing a single draft law and unanimously voting in favor of it. “We obtained resources that will allow us to compensate people’s material losses and fix roads. The fact that the vote was unanimous is significant,” she stressed.
Commenting on the fact that a compromise draft law that took into consideration proposals by the President and opposition was put to vote, the Prime Minister stated that while only the government has the right to submit changes to the budget, most important was the vote approving the budget changes.
“According to the Budget Code, Constitutional Court decision, and law on environmental emergency situations, only the government has the right to introduce amendments and supplements to the budget,” she noted, “But the government believes that our job was to pass amendments to the budget. After we overcome the damage form the natural disaster we will fight against the fact that the political forces are possibly violating the Constitution.”
Tymoshenko also noted that water is receding in Western Ukraine and there are “no reasons for the natural disaster to continue.”
In addition to the government’s draft law, draft
amendments to the budget were also submitted by the
President and Party of Regions.
On July 31, the Verkhovna Rada approved amendments to the law on the State Budget, according to which 5,046,800 hryvnias will be allocated for the flood clean-up effort in Western Ukraine. 441 deputies voted in favor.
Afterwards the deputies also voted through an increase in the excise tax for tobacco products, to which the government was insisting.
Deputies did not vote in favor of providing 24 billion hryvnias in subsidies to Ukravtodor.
Deputies also failed to change administration of budget funds. According to the newly adopted law, budget funds will be administered by local executive government bodies.
On July 31, the Verkhovna Rada approved amendments to the law on the State Budget, according to which 5,046,800 hryvnias will be allocated for the flood clean-up effort in Western Ukraine. 441 deputies voted in favor.
Afterwards the deputies also voted through an increase in the excise tax for tobacco products, to which the government was insisting.
Deputies did not vote in favor of providing 24 billion hryvnias in subsidies to Ukravtodor.
Deputies also failed to change administration of budget funds. According to the newly adopted law, budget funds will be administered by local executive government bodies.