Budgets of local communities grew 67 times for past five years – president

President Petro Poroshenko said this at a meeting of the Regional Development Council in Rivne region, the press service of the head of state reported.

"Compare - in 2013, local communities received UAH 500 million for their development from the state budget. In 2019, the state budget allocated UAH 33.5 billion for that. Local budgets have increased 67 times. During the war," the president said.

Poroshenko recalled that the share of local budget in the consolidated budget was 51%. "And only the necessity of defense expenditures does not allow us to further move this ratio in favor of local budgets. But this will be continued, I promise you," he added.

The president informed that the budget of each community was published on the website of the Finance Ministry on his instructions. This allows each member of the community to check the spending of local communities.

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