Belgrade city assembly amends budget without opposition councillors

NEWS 04.03.201913:34
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Opposition councillors did not attend Monday’s session of the Belgrade City Assembly which adopted an amended budget for 2019, choosing instead to stay outside the building and put up the same stickers that protesters put up during the weekend protest.

Alliance for Serbia founder Dragan Djilas told reporters before the session that the opposition group would not send its councillors into the assembly hall, adding that the stickers were being put up in a show of solidarity with the people whose names were taken by the police during Saturday’s protest. He said that the city budget was being amended just two months after it was adopted.  

Under the amended budget, the city authorities will get a loan of 35 million Euros from commercial banks to buy more than 200 buses for the city transport company (GSP) which will secure another 10 million Euros for the purchase.  

The opposition walked out of the city assembly recently after adopting the Agreement With the People.