Saakashvili Calls Government to Avoid Use of Budgetary Funds for Election Campaign

(Tbilisi, June 14 2003, Civil Georgia) – Leader of the National Movement party Mikheil Saakashvili and Chairman of the Parliament?s financial-budgetary office Roman Gotsiridze urge the pro-governmental parties to publish their financial accounts.

?Budgetary paralysis is anticipated in autumn. The government has no sufficient funds to finance pre-election campaign, therefore it will use the budgetary funds for this purposes,? Mikheil Saakashvili said at the news briefing today.

He called the pro-governmental parties to hold a round table, where all the parties would discuss the issues of pre-election funding.

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