Balgarianovinite.com Democratic Bulgaria (DB) insists that the budget deficit should be limited to 3% already this year and to no more than 2.5% next year, MP Martin Dimitrov told journalists on Monday.
His comment was prompted by Monday’s statement of Finance Minister Galab Donev, in which he announced part of the government’s financial measures and reviewed the state of the budget.
“We are hearing too many excuses, a certain amount of complaining, while there should be firm and concrete goals,” Dimitrov said. According to Democratic Bulgaria, under a democratic and reform-oriented government the deficit can be contained.
“We are hearing ideas for good measures, but at this stage we do not have guarantees of determination in the government’s actions,” he said.
Similar to the ruling party, DB believes that taxes should not be increased, but limiting the deficit is important for curbing inflation as well, because spending, borrowing, and deficits during the rule of GERB and MRF – New Beginning were generators of inflation, Dimitrov said
“That is why we expect firm commitments from this government,” he stressed.
Vladislav Panev said out that it is important to see the medium-term programme for the next three years to make sure that the commitment not to change taxes will remain in place through to 2028.
“We would like to praise the government for some bold reforms it hinted at, such as reducing budget expenditures relative to GDP,” Panev said.
Democratic Bulgaria will support a 10% reduction in state administration spending, the removal of the automatic mechanism for determining salaries in the public sector, as well as a cap on remuneration for senior state officials and inspections of public procurement procedures.
According to Panev, however, now is not the right time to increase the maximum social insurance income threshold.
According to Bozhidar Bozhanov, some of the measures that Democratic Bulgaria insists on were missing from the finance minister’s agenda presented today, including requiring civil servants to also pay social security contributions, gradually reducing the number of pensioners employed in the administration and the Ministry of Interior, and limiting healthcare expenditures.
“Every single budget item must be optimized as much as possible and corruption pipelines must be shut off,” Bozhanov stated.
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