The Chamber of Deputies’ budget committee has recommended that MPs approve the main parameters of next year’s state budget in its first reading. These include revenue, expenditures, a deficit of 386 billion crowns and how it will be financed.
The proposed deficit has drawn strong criticism from the opposition, but opposition lawmakers failed to push through a recommendation that the lower house reject the budget and return it to the government for revision.
The Chamber of Deputies is expected to approve the budget by early December.