The government is demonstrating increased financial discipline, revenue growth, and reallocation of funds to key sectors with the start of the amendment debate on the budget rebalance. MP Igor Zdravkovski from the VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group stated the rebalance provides additional funds for salaries, pensions, capital investments, young people, education, and infrastructure.

Zdravkovski emphasized that the rebalance includes 800 million more for salaries, 2.5 billion more for pensions, and an additional 300 million denars for capital investments.

2 billion denars will be allocated to education for the construction and rehabilitation of campuses, student dormitories, and schools. The “Buy a House for Young People” project will receive 111% more funding.

An additional 307 million denars are planned for local roads and increased funds for railway infrastructure, along with 237 million denars allocated to health facilities for construction, reconstruction, modernization, and digitalization.

Zdravkovski criticized the opposition’s amendments as a result of a lack of ideas or chronic ignorance, claiming they proposed amendments for projects already included in the rebalance. He further stated that the opposition is trying to show artificial concern, proposing changes for local challenges in Kočani, which accumulated during their seven-year rule when they allegedly did nothing to improve the situation.

Zdravkovski concluded that the Government, with the Assembly’s support, has been working to solve citizens’ problems, including in social policy, by increasing the number of employees in kindergartens and building new homes for the elderly.