ZAGREB, March 14 (Hina) - This year's government budget, as well as the law on its implementation, will be adopted by March 23 at the latest, president of the Croatian National Parliament, Zlatko Tomcic, said Tuesday, commenting on
claims by Upper House MPs of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party bench they would not endorse the budget, thus bringing its adoption by March 31 into question. Commenting on announcements by which the House of Counties would resort to its constitutional right to place a veto on the budget, Tomcic said this right was not in question. However, he stressed, another, more serious question was posed -- who in Croatia can give himself the luxury of disabling the regular financial functioning of the state. The HDZ party bench at the Upper House has a majority, and on Tuesday announced they would not support the draft budget because what it was offering was in contra
ZAGREB, March 14 (Hina) - This year's government budget, as well as
the law on its implementation, will be adopted by March 23 at the
latest, president of the Croatian National Parliament, Zlatko
Tomcic, said Tuesday, commenting on claims by Upper House MPs of the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party bench they would not endorse
the budget, thus bringing its adoption by March 31 into question.
Commenting on announcements by which the House of Counties would
resort to its constitutional right to place a veto on the budget,
Tomcic said this right was not in question. However, he stressed,
another, more serious question was posed -- who in Croatia can give
himself the luxury of disabling the regular financial functioning
of the state.
The HDZ party bench at the Upper House has a majority, and on Tuesday
announced they would not support the draft budget because what it
was offering was in contrast to the promises the winning
coalition's six parties had stated in their electoral campaign.
The parties of the winning coalition are the Social Democratic
Party, Croatian Social Liberal Party, Croatian Peasants' Party,
Liberal Party, Istrian Democratic Party and the Croatian People's
Party.
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