Parliament Discusses Draft Amendments to State Budget

The Georgian Parliament launched discussion of draft amendments to the 2006 state budget on May 11, which envisage an increase of expenditures by GEL 198 million that, as the Finance Minister Lexo Alexishvili said, became possible as a result of increasing tax and non-tax revenues.
 
Alexishvili said that financing for social programs, infrastructure rehabilitation, law enforcement agencies and educational programs will be increased.
 
The opposition parliamentarians who are boycotting the parliamentary sessions have already slammed the government’s budgetary policy.
 
Leader of the Industrialists party Zurab Tkemaladze said that the amendments to the state budget at the beginning of the year mean that the government’s economic team failed to properly plan the budget.