Nezavisne novine: SARAJEVO – Minister of finances of the FBiH, Vjekoslav Bevanda, offered to the HDZ BiH resignation to the position of minister, because of his dissatisfaction with the relation the Government has with the Ministry he is leading.
Information was confirmed by Bevanda himself, pointing out that the party which nominated him for minister did not accept his resignation.
“That is more an act of warning, because I think that in this situation we do not need Ministry of Finances any more, because it turned into ordinary till. Populist demands are being met and promises without coverage are being made, and in other places there is no order. Think that Ministry and I are not here just to approve or refuse something”, said Bevanda.
From the HDZ BiH they confirmed that they did not accept the resignation of the minister of finances.
“We think this act is highly moral, but we do not accept it and we give full support to the Minister Bevanda. In the following days we will continue interparty talks, so we could remove all existing shortcomings”, said Mišo Relota, spokesman of the HDZ BiH.
Prime Minister of the FBiH, Nedžad Branković, said yesterday that he does not want even to think about Bevanda’s resignation.
“Vice Prime Ministers Bevanda and Gravilo Grahovac are my closest associates and I do not want even to think about that scenario”, said Branković.
Bevanda’s dissatisfaction escalated because of decision of the Government of the FBiH, in spite arguments on endangerment of the fiscal sustainability of the FBiH, to adopt rebalance of the budget of the FBiH which provides 76 million KM for provisions for unemployed veterans. Explaining why he does not accept disputed changes of the budget, Bevanda said that by proposed rebalance “somebody planned increase in revenues of the VAT by 76 million KM, not taking into consideration that the Government recently, because of decrease of revenues in relation to planned, adopted a decision on stopping execution of certain expenses”.
Bevanda recently also warned that the FBiH is threatened by bankruptcy, because financial obligations are growing, and inflow of money is, although greater than last year, smaller than expected.