The Parliament adopted the supplemented state budget for next year, "heavy" over 6.5 billion euros
During the afternoon part of the 22nd session, with 69 votes "for" and 5 "against", the Assembly adopted the state budget for 2025, in which total revenues are planned at the level of 358,8 billion, and expenditures at the level of 400,2, 41.350 billion denars. The budget deficit is projected in an absolute amount of 4 million denars, that is, at 3,7 percent of GDP, and the planned growth of the economy is XNUMX percent.
The Minister of Finance Gordana Dimitrieska-Kochoska said in the exposition that the budget is based on real macroeconomic assumptions and fiscal projections, ensures smooth functioning of institutions and the state, regular servicing of obligations and has a development component by encouraging the realization of a significant investment cycle.
Unanimously, with 74 "yes" votes, the Assembly also adopted the decision to redistribute funds between budget beneficiaries of the central government and between funds.
The proposed decision, as pointed out by the Deputy Minister of Finance Nikolche Jankulovski, is for financing the obligations of the budget users that were inherited from the previous government, and the funds will be taken from the items that will clearly not be realized until the end of the year.
With the proposed decision, he pointed out, 9,3 billion denars are being reallocated, of which 2,2 billion are given to the Pension Insurance Fund, 1,9 billion to the Ministry of Social Policy, Demography and Youth, and 1,2 billion denars to the Agency to support agriculture and rural development, 1,16 billion denars for transfers to the Health Insurance Fund, 873 million denars to the Ministry of the Interior for the realization of the Safe City project and other needs, 656 million denars in the Government for financial support of companies, 543 million denars in the Ministry of Education and Culture for student and student standards, 267 million denars for the Ministry of Digital Transformation, 203 million denars for the Ministry of Culture, 168 million denars for the Ministry of Transport, 130 million denars in the Ministry for health for drugs for patients with rare diseases, 94 million denars for the Administration for the Execution of Sanctions, 50 million denars for the AHV, 35 million for the Ministry of Education and Culture...
- The purpose of the proposed decision is to reduce the obligations of budget users and better management of public finances, said Jankuloski.
