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Bill: Budget proposal of June 4078
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative People's Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change the allocation of funds in the budget. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 4079
Description[?]:
| The Conservative People's Party propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the Democratic Republic of Solentia. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 7,500,000,000 SOL | 1,000,000,000 SOL | 100,000,000 SOL |
| Foreign Affairs | 10,000,000,000 SOL | 12,000,000,000 SOL | 12,000,000,000 SOL |
| Internal Affairs | 35,000,000,000 SOL | 12,000,000,000 SOL | 16,000,000,000 SOL |
| Finance | 10,500,000,000 SOL | 10,000,000,000 SOL | 10,000,000,000 SOL |
| Defence | 100,000,000,000 SOL | 90,000,000,000 SOL | 75,000,000,000 SOL |
| Justice | 30,000,000,000 SOL | 50,000,000,000 SOL | 50,000,000,000 SOL |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 45,000,000,000 SOL | 50,000,000,000 SOL | 50,000,000,000 SOL |
| Health and Social Services | 75,000,000,000 SOL | 100,000,000,000 SOL | 100,000,000,000 SOL |
| Education and Culture | 50,000,000,000 SOL | 120,000,000,000 SOL | 125,000,000,000 SOL |
| Science and Technology | 25,500,000,000 SOL | 25,000,000,000 SOL | 28,000,000,000 SOL |
| Food and Agriculture | 12,500,000,000 SOL | 10,000,000,000 SOL | 15,000,000,000 SOL |
| Environment and Tourism | 10,500,000,000 SOL | 10,000,000,000 SOL | 13,000,000,000 SOL |
| Trade and Industry | 25,500,000,000 SOL | 12,000,000,000 SOL | 12,200,000,000 SOL |
| Total | 437,000,000,000 SOL | 502,000,000,000 SOL | 506,300,000,000 SOL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:15:09, August 22, 2016 CET | From |  Conservative People's Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 4078 |
| Message | Our party wishes to manage national finances responsibly and invest more in services to make them better. We made cuts in some areas such as defense to add more to Health services and Food & Agriculture.We also invested more in Environment and tourism, trade and industry, Internal affairs, Education and culture and science and technology. |
| Date | 18:19:39, August 22, 2016 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 4078 |
| Message | "The Unionists applaud this budget package from the CPP. It is absolutely right to use funds previously for military and Presidential affairs to make investments in education, science and environment." Geortha Marindi, Shadow Finance Secretary |
| Date | 18:35:27, August 22, 2016 CET | From | Royal Socialist Front (RSF) | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 4078 |
| Message | Our Party is against this bill, due to it bringing down military spending that we should be using to defend ourselves from hostile forces. |
| Date | 19:19:53, August 22, 2016 CET | From | Conservative People's Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 4078 |
| Message | The defense budget is still reasonable and our military is already adequately resourced. |
| Date | 19:36:14, August 22, 2016 CET | From | Party of the Democratic Revolution | To | Debating the Budget proposal of June 4078 |
| Message | We absolutely support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 250 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 350 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 150 |
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