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Currently, the budget debates are not bringing luck to the coalition. If the decision had to be postponed for a day in the spring due to some missing zeros, there was another breakdown yesterday. A signature was missing on an amendment. At first, the coalition parties assumed that the budget decision would stand. But as the president of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) announced, after a one-hour presidency, the decision-making process “did not go correctly”.
Special meeting next week
Therefore, the Ministry of Finance resends the corresponding request to Parliament. Then the decision-making procedure is restarted. The National Council must hold a special session to make the decision. It will take place next Thursday.
The blame for the misery was that an amendment to the financial framework was only signed by four MPs instead of five, and therefore did not receive sufficient support. The president of the National Council, Sobotka, had overlooked that a signature had been forgotten, as he himself declared in plenary.
Sobotka apologizes
After Friday’s plenary session, Sobotka apologized for the ballot. “Wherever you work, mistakes happen,” he wrote in a broadcast. He made the mistake because one of the deputies signed with his first and last name, three deputies only with his last name, so there were five names on the paper.
The mistake was discovered, as in the spring, by SPÖ’s finance spokesman Jan Krainer, reports the APA.
