Dnevni list: The next year will be the hardest in last thirty, when speaking of the financial existence of the Federation, has been said yesterday by the Federal Minister of Finances, Vjekoslav Bevanda.

By explaining the situation in the Federation, he has said that this year will financially be closed, but that the federal budget of 1,560.000.000 KM for next year, will have to be carefully deliberated and divided. Bevanda explains how the budget for this year has been determined on 1.472.000.00 KM, but it has increased on 1.800.000.000 KM because of different wishes which are verified by the Government and the Parliament, and that those unrealistic wishes have brought to the situation that in some institutions have run out of the funds for paying the salaries last month already.

Freezing the salaries

“We are not going into an increase, but into the realistic reduction of the budget in accordance with the possibilities. At the session of the Fiscal Council of the FBiH, I have presented what I consider we need to undertake, and it is that the salaries of administration in the next year must remain the same and that the total assignment for the social sector must remain at the level of this year’s, meaning on 706 million KM”, says Bevanda. For these proposals of his, he says he received a full support of all levels of the Government, and the members of the MMF and the World Bank, who have graded it as the only right way for financial existence of the Federation in the next year.  Even though Bevanda’s proposal on reduction of assignment for social sector has been negatively accepted, he thinks that this decision must be implemented, and that the departmental ministers must adjust themselves in the existing financial frames.  

Audits in social sector follow

“We have confirmed the frame and it is on the departmental ministers to adapt themselves. The audit will have to be done, by not only speaking of it. The easiest was to set the loose criteria and give all rights to everyone”, says Bevanda and adds that the next year can be survived only by cutting the unrealistic appetites. By explaining the financial moving and possible contributions in the next year, Bevanda has said that “we have run over the recession”, but we do not see it because, among the others, we do not have adequate systems of measuring the statistics.