The Verkhovna Rada voted in the first reading the draft State Budget for the next year. 251 people's deputies voted "

" One vote was given by the faction "

Another seven votes were provided by Golos deputies, four by non-factional deputies. Not a single vote was given to the European Solidarity and Batkivshchyna factions.

In the second reading, the draft will be considered in the same month, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said..

The discussion of the amendments in the hall lasted almost three hours.. It was possible to cancel the amendments to increase funding for the national telethon by 1.4 billion and amendment No. 277 on additional rights of the Cabinet of Ministers.

According to Zheleznyak, only two “balance changes” remain: an increase in spending on the GFRD (+2 billion), social protection of children and families (+446 million), measures in the field of protecting the information space (+1.3 billion) and the production of television programs (.