Newly-Elected Authorities will cost the Ukrainian People dear, Mykola Tomenko stated, analyzing the State Budget of Ukraine for 2010 adopted on Tuesday.
"As the budget for 2010 failed to become the subject of expert and parliamentary discussions, it is only post factum that the fundamental financial law for the year 2010 can be studied", M.Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stated.
According to M.Tomenko, to understand the attitude of the newly-elected authorities to the people, "one should understand the attitude of the authorities to themselves." M.Tomenko stated that "having analyzed the expenditures for the central executive bodies in 2010 and compared them with the expenditures in 2009, one can talk about the deepest respect to the President and the President´s administration." Thus, the expenditures for the upkeep of the State Administration increase by 28% (by UAH 233 million 572,4 thousand), for the support of President´s work by 17 % (UAH 34 million 058,5 thousand). The expenditures for the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat increase by 12% (UAH 32 million 716,9 thousand), for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariate by 11% (UAH 81 million 260,2 thousand).
"Thus, another election myth about the drastic curtailment of the expenditures for the upkeep of authorities is discredited", M.Tomenko stated. He stated that "the truth is on the side of those who during the election campaign had declared that the main slogan of the candidate V.Yanukovych "Ukraine for the People" presupposed the concern for ‘the friends´ first of all, not the ordinary public."