The proposal of the Budget Law for 2024, which weighs close to 3,5 billion euros, was officially forwarded to the Parliament for consideration today, and its adoption is expected by the end of the year.
Opinions about the quality of budget planning are conflicting.
One part of the parliamentary majority has no doubt that the budget was made in the interest of the citizens, while the other does not want to make a statement until it has looked at all its items in detail.
On the other hand, the former Minister of Finance Aleksandar Damjanović says that he is glad that the rebalancing has been done in the positions he left in the Ministry of Finance, but he does not fail to remind Prime Minister Milojko Spajiča that he still does not know how the goals from the program will be realized Europe now 2.
It is interesting that neither the old nor the new government sees a problem in the increasing number of employees in the state administration.
At the end of the 80s, the Slovenian communists presented a departure from the old system and economic reforms under the slogan "Europe now".
The same slogan and the same promises in Montenegro 30 years later. But to the question Europe when? - we did not get a concrete answer.
When asked by a journalist from TV Vijesta when the salaries will be increased, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić said yesterday during the presentation of the Draft Law on the Budget for 2024 that everything has been said about 50 times.
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In response to the journalist's statement that he was not and that the prime minister was contradictory, whether the increase would be in November or January and whether it was included in the budget, Spajić said that he was glad that the months were being discussed here, and not the three decades that had passed. , and when we didn't have any results.
"Mr. Spajić's pre-election activities and pre-election promises are his personal matter, that is, that of Europe now. We have created a government that is in the interest of the citizens of Montenegro," said Dejan Đurović, deputy of the coalition For the Future of Montenegro (ZBCG).
"I did not see the outlines of that program during this year, although it was presented where it was presented," said former finance minister Aleksandar Damjanović.
Although we did not find out when the promised wage increase will occur, we learned about a new debt of about 650 million, which will be used to service old debts and finance capital projects.
"When we talk about the aspect of debt for the next year, I think that it is oversized and there will be no need for the same. I am glad that the rebalancing was done in the positions I left in the Ministry of Finance, I am glad for this continuity," said Damjanović.
"We inherited a debt of 518 million euros. It was a debt at the time of the DPS and the satellites that made up the government. This is something that we have to pay back," said Đurović.
There will obviously be no major cuts when it comes to the cumbersome public administration, because the new budget already provides money for salaries for nearly 1.000 new employees from the time of Dritan Abazović's government. This will cost the state an additional 30 million euros.
"A small state must have an apparatus like a large state, that is the price of independence and a smaller state of your own," said Damjanović.
"We will take maximum care so that no one who is employed is in a situation of being fired, regardless of how much it costs Montenegro at the moment," said Đurović.
And it will cost a lot, because according to the data of Action for Social Justice (ASP) from November of this year, there are close to 46,5 thousand employees in state nurseries.
The DPS government has been talking about the cumbersome public administration and the need to reduce the number of employees since 2010, but all that talk has remained just a dead letter until today.
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