| According to YABLOKO, draft federal budgets for 2012
and 2013-2014 published by the Russian Finance Ministry require
principled changes. The draft budgets will be submitted to
the parliament after they are examined by the Russian Government.
It is obvious that it is an electoral budget aiming at maintaining
high level of expenditures on the items most significant for
2012 so that to ensure a certain electoral result, said Grigory
Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKOs Political Committee. After
2012 it is planned to abruptly and absolutely unreasonably
change the federal budget priorities.
Thus, expenditure on education will be maintained at 4.6
per cent for 2012, but it will be reduced to 3.9 per cent
in 2013 and 3.3 per cent in 2014.
The same dynamics of federal budget expenditure is envisaged
for healthcare: 4.2 per cent for 2012, 3.5 per cent for 2013
and 3.0 per cent for 2014.
The YABLOKO party considers such abrupt cuts on education
and healthcare inadmissible.
Also cutting of expenditure on the National Economy looks
very disturbing: from 13.8 per cent in 2012 to 12.1 per cent
in 2013 and 10.9 per cent in 2014. Such dynamics will not
allow to maintain domestic demand so that to confront growing
global recession and possibly another economic crisis.
Financing of the infrastructure should remain an absolute
priority for the coming years. That is why YABLOKO has developed
programme Land-Housing-Roads.
YABLOKO expresses hopes that the present State Duma will
carefully examine draft federal budgets for 2012 and 2013-2014,
so that the new State Duma will not have to amend bad errors
of their colleagues after the elections of December 4.
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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