Šimonytė sees little opportunity to implement the government’s ambitions in next year’s budget

“In fact, we will certainly have little opportunity to make some significant adjustments to the budget in terms of some ambitions, that is, if other decisions of the Seimas, laws or other resolutions are needed that allow to implement one or the other commitment, then obviously there is no time. to do it”. , I. Šimonytė told reporters at the Seimas.

According to her, the new government will seek to “reflect some of the priorities”, but will give priority to the commitments already planned, although some of them are not contemplated in the draft budget presented by the former governors.

“Here today I received a question from the Minister of Health, who has just presented the budget of the Health Insurance Fund, which does not foresee any salary increase, who already asks me if I am going to increase the salary of doctors. “There really are enough stories of this kind in the budget – the indexation of pensions, on which the final decisions were made today,” he said.

“It seems to me that the priority now is, first and foremost, to do everything possible to ensure that the commitments that have already been made are properly implemented and that people are not disappointed in the state’s ability to implement the decisions that once they were agreed, “added I. Šimonytė. .

According to the future head of government, those responsible will later model the implementation of their ambitions and will see the possibility of financing them with the so-called DNA plan to combat the coronavirus crisis, abandoning some of the measures of the previous government.

“So far, I have not heard any good arguments why it should be different until we have an agreement with the European Commission on the projects that can be financed by the Recovery Fund. It is better to refrain from planning those big projects (…) and then it is better to come to the Seimas with a revised budget for next year, so that these measures are properly planned and planned ”, explained the Prime Minister.