Draft amendment to the 2005 state budget, envisaging increase of expenditures by 26 million Lari (USD 14.4 million) was criticized by the opposition lawmakers at the parliamentary session on September 16.
Leader of opposition Conservative Party MP Koba Davitashvili criticized the government-proposed amendments, claiming that the increase of expenditures will have no affect ?on impoverished people.? Most of the additional revenues will go for the defense spending.
MP Ivliane Khaindrava of the opposition Republican Party said that the government increases expenditures ?only on paper.? ?The government has already spent [funds], mainly from the President?s Fund illegally, hence it is now necessary to legalize these spending and now it happens through increasing expenditures on the paper,? he said, while addressing parliamentarians during the debates at the session.
The parliament will vote for the budgetary amendments within next two weeks.
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