Parliament adopted a bill to amend the 2015 state budget law in the final reading. Thus, the state budget incomes were reduced by about 1 billion lei, while the costs by approximately 1.6 billion lei, IPN reports.
The road fund was cut by almost half a billion lei, the fund for energy efficiency projects – by about 200 million lei, while the costs for building the Ungheni - Chisinau gas pipeline were suspended. As a result, the share of the state debt in the GDP will decrease by 0.6 percentage points and will represent 31.1% on December 31.
The MPs accepted Communist MP Oxana Domenti’s proposal not to diminish the costs for medical services covered from the reserve fund by 13 million lei as this fund won’t be used up by this yearend.
Acting Minister of Finance Anatol Arapu said in Parliament that owing to the suspension of foreign financing, including the loan of €150 million from Romania and the assistance from the EU, the cash transfers for medical services and for the local public authorities were reduced.
The European Union and the World Bank suspended the provision of financing to Moldova owing to the problems faced in the banking sector and to the political instability. The foreign donors said the financing will be resumed when Moldova signs an agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
