Sandra Benčić of the Green-Left Bloc said the budget revision was an act of capitulation by the government to the post-earthquake reconstruction of Zagreb and Banovina.
There were no plans for reconstruction, not even public buildings with unproblematic property-rights relations have been reconstructed, she warned.
We do not know if an extension of the deadline to use the money from the EU Solidarity Fund will be requested “or how much of it we will have to return because we will not be able to use it,” she said, adding that citizens were not a government priority but the purchase of fighter jets was.
Anka Mrak Taritaš recalled that the budget revision was the second budget revision this year.
It shows that the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare all the problems in the health system and that it is not managed well, she said, adding that there was also no post-earthquake reconstruction or reforms.
The results of the population census will show how serious the demographic situation is and a demographic strategy needs to be adopted urgently, Mrak Taritaš said, adding that a possible solution was to hire foreign nationals.
Domagoj Hajduković of the Social Democrats, too, said he would not support the budget revision, noting that budget funds had been spent in a non-transparent way.
Siniša Hajdaš Dončić of the Social Democratic Party said he would vote against the budget revision because of poor expenditure management.
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