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Caretaker cabinet proposes extension of implementation of old state budget

Finance Minister in the caretaker government Rositza Velkova
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After a meeting with the president, We Continue the Change party stated the caretaker cabinet must submit a draft budget for 2023 to the National Assembly.

The deadline for submitting a budget for next year is today, 31 October. At an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation, Finance Minister in the caretaker government Rositza Velkova stated that the budget is the country’s financial plan and the government programme of the majority which has not yet been formed. In her words, there has never been a caretaker government under which a state budget has been adopted. At the Council meeting, the cabinet proposed, to the social partners and the employers, a bill on extending the implementation of the old, 2022 budget until a new, regular government is formed. 



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