With 66 votes “For” and 28 votes “Against” members of Parliament before midnight, passed the budget for 2016. It is thus the largest budget so far, which weighs in at 3.2 billion euros.
The opposition voted against, because during the five-day discussion on several occasions they stressed that this budget is wasteful, uneconomically, fanciful, undeveloped and not opaque. The budget, which, according to them, will increase poverty, debt and emigration.
For MPs in government again, it is a development aimed at stimulating investment in support of the small and medium size companies and that the social capital component is represented.
Minister of Finace Zoran Stavreski. said from the Parliament rostrum that the budget voted tonight was in the citizens of Macedonia’s interest and thanked the opposition’s MPs for their constructiveness during the debate, and those in government who were familiar with theme.