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MPs Will Discuss the Draft Budget for Next Year with a Deficit of 386 Billion Crowns

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The state budget for 2027, with a proposed deficit of 386 billion crowns, is starting to be discussed by MPs. While Prime Minister and ANO leader Andrej Babiš and ANO Finance Minister Alena Schillerová describe the budget as pro-investment, the proposed deficit is criticized by opposition parties and the National Budget Council, because the Czech Republic is not facing any emergency situation.

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According to the opposition, the coalition of ANO, SPD and Motorists has drawn up the state budget for next year as if the Czech Republic were facing an economic crisis. Although the government is counting on a deficit of 386 billion crowns, the Pirates warned before Wednesday's first reading in the Chamber of Deputies that it could actually be more than 50 billion higher. TOP 09 wants to push for its reduction to 310 or 290 billion crowns. Howe…

Today, MPs will have an initial round of debate on the draft state budget for next year. In today's first reading, they will approve the basic parameters of the budget, i.e. its revenues, expenditures, deficit and the method of its settlement. The proposed deficit of 386 billion crowns is 76 billion higher than the one approved this year. The government will cover most of it by increasing the state debt. The opposition will want to return the bu…

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The state budget for 2027, with a proposed deficit of 386 billion crowns, is starting to be discussed by MPs. While Prime Minister and ANO leader Andrej Babiš and ANO Finance Minister Alena Schillerová describe the budget as pro-investment, the proposed deficit is criticized by opposition parties and the National Budget Council, because the Czech Republic is not facing any emergency situation.

·Čestlice, Czechia
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The Chamber of Deputies will open the first reading of the draft budget for next year on Wednesday, which envisages a deficit of 386 billion crowns. Finance Minister Alena Schillerová (ANO) told Echo24 that in the current situation, the deficit level, the second highest since the founding of the Czech Republic, has no alternative. The opposition sharply criticizes the government for the budget and wants the Chamber of Deputies to return it for r…

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Prague - The parliamentary opposition will propose that the Chamber of Deputies return the draft state budget for next year to the government for revision. It will demand that the government reduce the deficit to a maximum of 290 billion crowns from the currently proposed 386 billion crowns. According to it, the proposal contradicts the government's program statement. This is stated in the opposition report of the minority of deputies from the b…

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ceskenoviny.cz broke the news on Monday, October 19, 2026.
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