PES demands that party allocations be reduced and money redirected to increase child benefits

The Parliamentary Group of the Europe Now Movement (PES) has submitted to the parliamentary procedure the Proposal for a Law on Amendments to the Law on Financing Political Entities and Election Campaigns, which envisages a reduction of budgetary funds intended for financing political entities and independent parliamentary and councilor caucuses by 50 percent.

As announced by PES, the goal is to reallocate these funds to increase child allowances in accordance with the Law on Social and Child Protection.

"Given that the Law on Financing Political Entities and Election Campaigns is part of the corpus of electoral laws that are adopted by absolute consensus, in order for this proposal to be adopted, it is necessary that the proponents of increasing the child allowance from the GP URA parliamentary group first secure the necessary consent of all opposition colleagues for amendments to the law, so that the deputies of the parliamentary majority will be able to support the proposal to increase the child allowance. This is important because it was the parliamentary opposition that insisted on increasing the allocation for financing political entities in order to agree to vote for other reforms of electoral legislation," PES announced.

They add that with the possible consent of the opposition and the adoption of amendments to the law, the secured difference will be redirected additionally to the revenue side of the budget, which the proponent of the increase can count on, in addition to the 55 million euros already allocated from the budget for over 120 thousand beneficiaries of child allowance.

"It is very important that all political entities, both those who once abolished child allowance and those who did not increase it during their time in power, now show their willingness to cede their budget funding and direct it to the proposals they promote and thus enable their implementation, instead of making a list of populist proposals without a hitch so that they can be used for party marketing without previously provided funds in the budget," PES announced.