Budget Income Deficit

The Minister of the Economy Giorgi Kvirikashvili has explained the Budget income deficit through a lower-than-planned GDP growth and the reviewing of several infrastructural projects. The minister does not associate the deficit with any flaws in the administration. According to the head of the Parliamentary Committee on Budget Finance Davit Onoprishvili, the government has so far not explained to the Parliament how it plans to plug the hole in the State Budget.