Loading ...PNL (National Liberal Party) Vice-Chairman Varujan Vosganian on Monday stated the budget rectification recently adopted by the Government is so much different from the Budget Law that it can be said it represents a whole new budget policy, with no approval from Parliament existing for it.
'This rectification is based on certain measures of fiscal policy that have no explicit approval from the parliamentary groups.
We have no statements so far from any of the parliamentary groups supporting these measures related to the lump-sum tax and banning pensioners from drawing wage too, all we have being instead war like statements from some of the representatives of the incumbent governmental coalition, who warn these measure are neither good nor opportune,' Varujan Vosganian said.
The liberal spokesperson has also said the Executive is to find it quite difficult to pass this lump-sum tax in Parliament. 'I am warning the Government right now is going to have big problems in Parliament related to voting on this law on the lump-sum tax,' Varujan Vosganian said.
According to the PNL Vice -Chairman, the rectification would not put things straight, but it would aggravate the situation instead. 'If it was clear for us when the budget law was adopted the 2 percent deficit couldn't be reached, now, the result after the first three months of the year shows very clearly the 4.6 deficit would not be reached either.
Practically, the country deficit in January-March stands at almost 40 percent of the one estimated for the entire year,' Varujan Vosganian explained.
The PNL Vice-Chairman Mariana Campeanu accused the Government of acting cowardly when invoking the International Monetary Fund to justify such measures the Executive is not in the condition to take now, referring to such measures to stop the gap between the pensions and wages from widening. Moreover, Campeanu criticized the manner in which the Government managed the wage policy.
'We have started from an increase in the wages projected for the teaching staff by 50 percent and with the other categories of state employees attempting to ask for more money too… After this, step by step, we have started to decrease wages… We have all the way operated in the sense of decreasing wages,' Campeanu said.
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