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In today’s debate in the Serbian Assembly on the rebalancing of the state budget, the member of the Serbian Progressive Party, Veroljub Arsić, criticized the Fiscal Council and even assessed that the president of that body is “an alleged expert and ignorant”.
The Fiscal Council criticized the budget rebalancing with the assessment that it is not transparent, that the allocations for salaries in public companies are too large and that the distribution of 100 euros to citizens as aid during the epidemic was ineffective.
Arsic said he was not sure whether the Fiscal Council’s reports were written by its chairman Pavle Petrovic or the owner of the “Tabloid” newspaper, Milovan Brkic.
He said that so far all the assessments of the Fiscal Council were wrong and that “time has denied them.
Arsić criticized the Fiscal Council’s position that one should not invest in defense and the police, calling the claim “something more scandalous”, and warned the Council “that one should invest in the health system and not in the military. “.
“I would ask the president of the Fiscal Council if the Nis Clinical Center was completed before the pandemic, but he does not care because he is informed from Tabloid or NIN,” Arsić said.
Saying that unemployment in Serbia of 7.3 percent is a record low, he denied Pavle Petrovic’s position that without GDP growth there can be no drop in unemployment.
Arsic said that Petrovic was seeking the privatization of EPS and that Serbia had problems with the IMF because of Petrovic’s evaluations of public companies.
Valuing that “he does not believe in the good intentions” of the Fiscal Council, Arsić affirmed that the Council did not react during the “previous government”, and that “not how it spent the money, but also when it stole.”
“That is why we will not vote on the basis of the assessments of the Fiscal Council, but on the basis of our experience with this government,” Arsić concluded his speech in the Assembly.
The current members of the Fiscal Council were elected by a parliamentary majority in July 2017. Later, Pavle Petrović was elected President of the Council for the second time, at the suggestion of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić..
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