N-VA demands resignation of Brussels budget minister Sven Gatz
The N-VA faction in the Brussels Parliament is demanding the resignation of Budget and Finance Minister Sven Gatz in a motion. After a damning report from the Court of Auditors on the 2020 accounts, it also complained last week in its report on this and next year’s budgets about belated court reporting, mounting debts and a lack of transparency about one hundred million Covid-related. expenses, the party denounces.
Source: BELGA
On Monday, budget discussions started in the Finance Committee with a presentation by Minister Gatz and a hearing with the Court of Audit. In the written report, the Court of Audit complains about a lack of transparency about some 700 million euros in Covid-related support and recovery measures in the 2021 budget. euro European recovery aid will flow effectively towards the promised recovery measures.
Nor is the Court of Auditors the annual criticism of the decision of the Brussels government to spend up to half a billion euros outside the budget target. For example, according to the Court of Audit, nearly 500 million euros will be neutralized in 2021 and 400 million euros in 2022. This expenditure causes the debt of the Brussels-Capital Region to increase year after year.
“Trop is too much and too much is trop.” responding VA faction leader Cieltje Van Achter. “A few weeks back to the Court of Audit his 26th Brussels book. we remove from the Brussels books. Several Brussels administration companies know their time without a legal basis for this, millions of euros in errors are booked for cars and the Court of Audit system is mediocre.”
“Empty promises”
According to Van Achter, things are going from bad to worse. “We have had a liberal budget minister in Brussels for 22 years. Devastating report after report, I hear those ministers say that things are getting better. I believe that optimism is a moral duty. But if amateurism and empty promises characterize the financial policy of the region, then you have to solve that problem. It’s time for Secretary Gatz to take responsibility. Today we are submitting a motion asking for the minister’s resignation and a review of the relevant administrations,” she concludes.
Cieltje Van Achter against the wind from majority members Guy Vanhengel (Open VLD) and Juan Ben Benjumea-Moreno (Green). If the N-VA star would be consistent, especially in Flanders, Vanhengel, himself 20 years Minister of Budget in Brussels, Flanders and also federal. ongoing disputes.