President Nicolae Timofti promulgated the law to amend and supplement the 2015 state budget law that was adopted by Parliament with the aim of adjusting the budget indicators to the incomes and spending, resulting from the macroeconomic developments, the suspension of the budget support provided by the foreign partners and the forecasts for the period that remained until this yearend, IPN reports, quoting the presidential press service.

The state budget includes money for increasing teachers’ salaries from September 1, depending on the rise in percentage of the average official salary compared with the average salary in education in the fourth quarter of last year, and for raising the social assistance and cold-month allowances following the rise in the electric power and natural gas tariffs.

The expenditure was decreased by 32.2%, namely by reducing the costs planned for designing the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline by 300 million lei, the road fund by 485 million lei, the costs that were to be covered with the grant for reforming the justice sector by 130.9 million lei and the energy efficiency fund by 122.7 million lei.

The head of state expressed his concern about these decreases, especially about the diminution of the budget intended for the energy sector. He requested the Government and Parliament to identify financial resources in the budgetary year 2016 for raising the salaries in the budget-funded sector and for covering social protection and capital costs, including for finishing the works to design and build the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline.