ZAGREB, March 1 (Hina) - On Monday, a day before the deadline for submitting amendments to the government-sponsored draft budget for this year, the number of parliamentary deputies' amendments, which together weigh over three billion
kuna, rose to some 200.
ZAGREB, March 1 (Hina) - On Monday, a day before the deadline for
submitting amendments to the government-sponsored draft budget for
this year, the number of parliamentary deputies' amendments, which
together weigh over three billion kuna, rose to some 200.#L#
The exact number of the amendments and the sum which should be secured
for their implementation will be known at 14:00 hrs Tuesday, when the
deadline for the proposals expires.
MPs of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Croatian Peasant
Party (HSS) from the region of Slavonia together asked for a rise by
at least 2.5 million in funds appropriated for Slavonski Brod-Posavina
County and that 8.8 million kuna, rather than only a half million, be
ensured for the survey and registration of arable land.
Deputies of the SDP, Libra and the Croatian People's Party (HNS) ask
for more money for the area of Medjimurje, notably for a hospital in
the city of Cakovec, the construction of waste water management in
Nedelisce, and for small businesses zones.
The amendment requiring the highest amount, namely almost 1.2 billion
kuna for projects for protection against floods and the maintenance of
drainage, was moved by an SDP MP, Mato Gavran.
HSS MPs have said that their amendments could finally weigh up to two
billion kuna. Of this amount 300 million should go for the so-called
entitlements under the proposed national pension scheme which
envisages that citizens above 65 with no income could get 640 kuna
monthly, or those with a lower pension an additional sum so that their
monthly pension may be 640 kuna.
One of the "more expensive" amendments has been proposed by Milanka
Opacic of the SDP who has moved transferring an additional 340 million
kuna for maternity allowances and equipment for every new-born baby.
In this context, Opacic suggests that 3.5 million kuna set for the
administration for the official aircraft be directed to mothers.
Biserka Perman of the SDP proposes that 11.2 million kuna, which the
government intends to give to public health in Bosnia's Croat-Muslim
Federation, be allocated to the clinic hospital in the Croatian
seaport of Rijeka.
(1EUR =7.6 kuna)
(Hina) ms sb