The Lytvyn Bloc's leader Volodymyr Lytvyn believes that the Cabinet of Ministers is not interested in adoption of amendments to the state budget for 2008.
Lytvyn stated this in an interview in the Korrespondent journal.
Lytvyn believes that the government submitted draft amendments to the 2008 state budget in the final week of the parliament's second session in order to avoid responsibility for the failure to adopt these amendments.
"They submitted [the draft amendments to the state budget for 2008] in the final week and later blocked the rostrum... It was important for the government to do this so that it can later say that it was not allowed to work," Lytvyn said.
According to Lytvyn, the Cabinet of Ministers does not want the state budget to be amended because it has already unbalanced it.
"If the budget were adopted, it would be necessary to answer for it: answer for the taxes that were collected ahead of schedule and for the suspension of social laws - and there are more than 100 of them," Lytvyn said.
Moreover, Lytvyn believes that the draft budget amendments that the Cabinet of Ministers proposed were specially designed to promote Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ahead of the next presidential elections.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the parliament returned the draft law No. 2713 on amendment of the 2008 state budget (which the Cabinet of Ministers proposed) and the alternative draft law No. 2713-1 (which President Viktor Yuschenko proposed) to its budget committee for redrafting on July 11 after parliamentary deputies refused to back them.
Lytvyn is not ruling out the possibility of the draft amendments to the 2008 state budget being considered in September.
