The St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly rejected an inquiry
from Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the YABLOKO faction in the
Legislative Assembly, on non-implementation of the city budget.
The Legislative Assembly referred to its new regulations.
The YABLOKO faction will seek in court to cancel the new procedure
for filing inquiries to officials. Meanwhile Yavlinsky expressed
his concern about the "very unsatisfactory state of affairs
in the budgetary process of St. Petersburg" and wants
to know what measures Governor Georgy Poltavchenko is going
to adopt so that to amend the situation.
In his deputy inquiry Grigory Yavlinsky appeals to the Governor
"in view of an extremely poor state of affairs in the
budgetary process of St. Petersburg".
This is confirmed by the data recently published by the Committee
of Finance, according to which only 0.6% of funds were distributed
as of on March 1, 2013.
Grigory Yavlinsky recalls that in April 2012, he already sent
an inquiry to the Governor, when only 8.6% of St. Petersburg
budget for 2011 was implemented. Governor Poltavchenko said
that the situation "did not require any action."
However, in
2012 non-implementation of the budget grew by 1.5 times
- to 12.6%.
Yavlinsky is certain that the
chronic failure to implement the budget is due not only
to the poor performance of the city government, but "first
of all by deep systemic flaws of the budgetary process in
St. Petersburg, lack of professionalism at all the stages
of development, adoption and implementation of the budget
and the huge scale corruption in the city". According
to Yavlinsky, the Governors statements on the "need
to implement the budget", deprivation of officials of
bonuses and even dismissals of some of the officials can not
change the situation.
In view of this Grigory Yavlinsky asks Governor Georgy Poltavchenko
to inform the Legislative Assembly what remedial measures
he is going to take.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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