The 20 billion more in the budget that are being sought are the result of the trigger that the deputies pulled this year, and last year. These same deputies, without the smallest party, voted for these expenses, which they now wonder what they are. As for the salaries in the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Interior, education - there is nothing wrong with them, but we did not want them. This was stated by the president of the Confederation of Bulgarian Trade Unions Plamen Dimitrov in the program “From the Day” on BNT.
The increase in pensions, which is fair, brings with it 2.5 billion leva more expenses. We have an increase in health care money by over 1.5 billion, etc. We have set capital expenses that are twice as much as those that we will implement at the moment - 7 billion, he recalled.
We did not provoke these expenses and were much more careful in terms of growth and cost ratios. We have always said that linking income to the average salary and the fact that everyone wants to be above it is nonsense. This measure, which was imposed by laws, is absolutely wrong and was done by economists from GERB and PP-DB. It is very strange to be surprised now, Dimitrov specified.
The 7 billion leva additional for capital expenditures are additional provisions for what we will implement this year. In the last budget, we had set aside over 10 billion leva for capital expenditures. The forecast of the Ministry of Finance in the budget is 6.8 billion implementation, and quite tight at that. This is the buffer. I don't know why everyone who looks at the budget doesn't see this. We all know that this is a legal obligation. That's where the buffer is if the Ministry of Finance doesn't collect the money from the amnesty and other buffers, which should bring in 15 billion more revenue, said the president of the Confederation of Bulgarian Trade Unions.
What the BNB has requested is unacceptable. The separation of powers is guaranteed by law. The executive and legislative branches cannot be taught lessons by other institutions. I would go to the president, the prime minister, the head of parliament and the chairmen of the parliamentary groups who have chopped up this mess, that's where these 20 billion come from. There should be changes in the laws, believes Plamen Dimitrov.