The ruling parties will discuss which budget amendments to support and how the government will operate after the budget is adopted.
Due to the national holiday and extended weekend, the coalition council meeting will take place on Wednesday, before the government meeting. The ruling parties will once again discuss the amendments submitted to the budget and will finally decide which of them to support. Rumor has it that this time the proposals from the opposition will not be supported. There is no 'extra' money.
As can be predicted, the partners will exchange views on how they will interact after the budget is adopted. Despite the fact that in the last couple of weeks the intensity of emotions caused by the saga of the Istanbul Convention has subsided, the relationship, primarily between the 'progressives' and the 'green farmers,' remains tense. Now representatives of these two political forces are scandalizing each other over... ports. The 'green farmers' are categorically against the port reform and insist on writing off the debts of the Ventspils port. However, the Minister of Transport, Aitis Švinka, has already stated that he does not intend to support the Ministry of Economics' initiative to write off the debts. Hot discussions on this matter are expected at the coalition council on Wednesday.
At both the coalition and government meetings, politicians will discuss the Ministry of Health's draft amendments to the law on financing medical services. The Ministry of Health proposes to stipulate in the law that the right to state-paid medical services is granted to those who pay social tax and those who are registered in Latvia, meaning they are in the Register of Natural Persons.
It is quite possible that the partners at the coalition will return to the issue of the state buying out shares in tet and lmt, followed by attracting a strategic investor.
