"There is no collapse of public finances. We saw to it that salaries, pensions and other payments from the state budget were not late in the first six months," Suker said on Tuesday after a session of the Economic and Social Council.
Asked by reporters to comment on a 6.7 percent year-on-year downturn in GDP in the first quarter of 2009, the minister said that it should be taken into account that the first quarter of 2008 was very successful.
Asked about the possibility of having a motion for a budget revision on the parliament's agenda in two weeks' time, the minister said that in case the budget revision could not be technically finalised in the said time, some budgetary expenditures would be managed until the autumn as if the budget had been revised.
Suker said on Monday that his ministry was monitoring budgetary movements and that it would propose the second budget revision in 15 days or in early September.