United Russia, Liberal Democratic Party, New People supported the budget, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and spravorassy opposed – Economy and business
MOSCOW, November 24. / TASS /. The factions “United Russia”, LDPR and “New People” on Wednesday supported the draft federal budget for 2022-2024. against.
Special project on the topic
As the head of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes Andrei Makarov recalled, it represents a single representation in the document, in the document, financial support after the president is the social programs that were included in the popular program of the United Russia party in the elections. “All social social obligations of the state, regardless of what the economic situation will be, what economic sanctions or something else our wonderful partners come up with abroad, all social obligatory states of the state, today we say, are provided with funding. The period for which we are considering the budget.” , – said Makarov.
According to him, if the budget is not adopted, then “the most severe crisis for the country will come, after which all the inflation that exists now will seem like a holiday.” Makarov is sure that the factions that voted against the document thus spoke out against the support of citizens. “You are voting against being citizens of the elderly, against receiving payments for children,” Makarov said, addressing the deputies.
“The LDPR faction makes a decision <...> to support the draft budget in the third reading, ”Yaroslav Nilov, deputy head of the Liberal Democratic faction, said officially. He noted that within the budget it fulfills all social obligations of the state, while the deputies adopted amendments to raise the minimum wage above the level of projected inflation.
Nilov added that a number of LDPR proposals were taken into account in whole or in part. “Yes, of course, we need to provide additional funds for the social group, like the children of war, to provide them with additional funds,”
For his part, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov noted that not all the amendments to the draft federal budget proposed by the New People faction were supported by the lower house. At the same time, he said that some of the amendments proposed by the “New People” were approved. “There are still many questions to the budget, we do not understand how such a budget will ensure the declared economic growth. The project is based on the forecast for revenues in 2021, that economic growth will be about 3%. In our opinion <…>…
The position of the communists and socialists
A member of the Communist Party faction, first deputy chairman of the Committee on Budget and Taxes Mikhail Shchapov said that the faction “will vote against the budget in the third reading,” as the Communists do not agree with the concept of the document. “We believe that the priorities set in the budget are wrong,” the parliamentarian said. “We are against continuing to simultaneously fill the People’s States and increase the national debt,” he said.
Deputy head of the faction “Fair Russia – For the Truth” Valery Gartung also said that the spravorassi voted against the draft federal budget. In particular, he notes that the indexation of pensions for working pensioners is not provided by the draft budget.