Parliament approves national budget for 2019
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The 2019 draft budget submitted by the government passed parliament with a majority vote of 154 votes on Tuesday night.
A total of 297 deputies were present at the roll call vote, and 143 MPs of the opposition voted against it. Yiannis Saridis, Union of Centrists deputy, also voted for
The vote followed the closing address by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has noted that this is the first budget to be submitted in parliament after the completion of Greece's adjustment programme in August.
The previous government of New Democracy (ND) left behind public funds bereft of money, insurance funds with massive deficits of over 1 billion euros, and an unemployment rate of 28 percent, Prime Minister Alexis charged during the session on the 2019 draft budget.
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