Self-Defense and LPR-led ministries get budget boost

On Monday it turned out that their demands will be met. Still on Friday, Finance Minister Stanislaw Kluza who declared that next year's budget revenues will amount to around zl.209 billion, had to recalculate these figures very quickly. "The Ministry has increased the forecasts from zl.209 to 212.2 billion, maintaining the deficit at the level of zl.30 billion," revealed yesterday Deputy Finance Minister Elzbieta Suchocka-Roguska. "An amazing wonderful multiplication.The Ministry is shaping the expenditure plan for Self-Defense and the League of Polish Families, because while maintaining the zl.30 billion deficit anchor, expenditures can be higher if there are additional revenues. And here they are," said ironically chief economist with the Polish Business Council, Janusz Jankowiak. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.K.