Nezavisne novine: SARAJEVO – Parliamentary Commission for Finances and Budget supported yesterday the budget for this year in first reading, amounting around 1.2 billion KM. This was confirmed after the session Sadik Bahtić, the chairman of thos Commission. “We supported the Draft Law on Budget of BiH in first reading. So, we accepted the principles of the budget which was accepted at the session of the Presidency of BiH. However, I think that in the amendment phase, i.e. the second reading, there will be certain corrections", said Bahtić. Against the proposed budget, at the yesterday’s session, voted Lazar Prodanović, the representative of the SNSD in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH. His party colleague, Drago Kalabić did not attend this session, while the representative of the SDS, Savo Erić, did not attend the voting. “I voted against the principles of the budget because the proposal is illegitimate, oversized and unconstitutional. It was adopted by outvoting one member of the Presidency of BiH and that is why we cannot support it. We thing that the proposed budget is out of the frame of long term planning of public expenditure for the period 2007 – 2010", clarified Prodanović. He confirmed that the representatives of the SNSD, on Wednesday, at the session of the state parliament, will not vote in favour of the budget amounting to 1.2 billion KM "because it exceeds the framework long term budget by around 15 per cent". Prodanović: Possible to reach the budget with certain corrections Prodanović still believes that this year’s budget could be adopted, with certain corrections. “This year’s budget exceeds the last year one by around 23 per cent, and last year we did not spend around 61 million KM. This budget we cannot support, but since at the session of the Commission predominant opinion was that everybody can be pleased with the last proposal by the Council of Ministers, and not the budget which was proposed by the Chairman of the Presidency of BiH, I believe that with certain corrections we can reach the budget”, Prodanović pointed out.