The faction of the Party of Regions “together with political partners is ready to make maximum efforts so that Ukraine to meet the New Year with the full-fledged law on the State budget.” The statement of the Party of Regions says.
Also, it is noted in the statement that the Party of Regions demands immediate adoption of the law on the State budget for 2008. “This is the main question in the work of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.”
In accordance with the budget legislation, the government of Viktor Yanukovych in September introduced draft budjet. The bill foresaw the increasing of investments in the economy and improvement of social guarantees. “The government of Viktor Yanukovych proposed to increase significantly the payments, in particular, in health protection sphere, and to increase the financing of educational and scientific spheres.”
It is also stated in the document: “If the new appointed government has another draft budget and didn’t mark it as “secret”, the Party of Regions demands to publish it in order to discuss it previously at legislative and professional levels.”
The Party of Regions insists that this law on the State budget to be directed at protecting the social interests of budget sphere workers, large families, retired and disabled people and the budget also must foresee the economic prospects for private business representatives.
