The budget for 2025 was adopted by the Supreme Council in the first reading

The law-in-draft "On the republican budget" for the next financial year shall undergo three readings in the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The deputy corps adopted the law-in-draft "On the republican budget for 2025" in the first reading in the course of the plenary session of the PMR Supreme Council On November 6. The first reading approves the main characteristics of the consolidated, republican and local budgets. This is the total size, volume of income and expenditure, deficit and sources of covering the budget deficit, total amounts of expenditure on targeted state programs and on the program of voters' orders.

The law-in-draft was presented to the Supreme Council by Finance Minister Alena Ruskevich. The main financial document will retain its social orientation in 2025, according to the Deputy Chairman of the Government. The share of socially protected items makes in the expenditure part of the republican budget for 2025, the largest part - 67% (3 billion 508 million 765.2 thousand rubles), 62% of which are expenses on wages for public sector employees.

Thus, the state guarantees the population timely and full payment of wages, scholarships, pensions, and benefits.

The state will continue to finance the spheres of education, healthcare, and social protection. For example, almost 41.6 million rubles have been allocated for the treatment of patients outside the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The increase in funding limits for the treatment of patients outside the republic is due to the increase in the number of patients with acute coronary syndrome who require surgical treatment (coronary artery bypass grafting, balloon angioplasty, coronary stenting, laser myocardial revascularization, shock wave therapy), which is caused by the consequences of coronavirus infection suffered by citizens of the republic. In addition, the healthcare sector is allocated in 2025 a total of 1 million 879 thousand rubles for payments to individuals awarded the "Honorary Donor of the PMR" badge or a similar badge of the USSR or MSSR, monetary compensation in the amount of 250 minimum wages (or 1450 rubles), as well as monetary compensation to active donors in the amount of 20 minimum wages (or 116 rubles) for each donation of blood and (or) its components. The 2025 budget provides 64.1 million rubles for the payment of benefits to citizens with children, almost 108 million rubles will be allocated from the republican budget for the purchase of medical and pharmaceutical products, funding for the item of expenditure on the provision of consultative appointments with specialists and diagnostics for children in private clinics in the PMR will be maintained (2 million rubles), the amount of funding for the provision of rehabilitation facilities for disabled people of group 1 has been increased to 13.6 million rubles. In total, expenditures in the amount of 980 million 797 thousand rubles (18.7%) of the total expenditures of the republican budget are envisaged for financing the healthcare sector in 2025. This amount is more than in 2024.

21 state target programs are in effect in Pridnestrovie. About 40 million rubles are planned in the 2025 budget for the implementation of state target programs in the field of healthcare, almost 18 million are allocated to finance the state program for the purchase of housing for orphans. They plan to purchase 61 residential premises for this amount: 16 apartments in Tiraspol, 1 in Dnestrovsk and Kamenka, 12 in Slobodzeya district, 11 in Bendery, 13 residential premises in Rybnitsa district, 4 and 3 in Grigoriopol and Dubossary districts, respectively. It is planned to finance activities aimed at developing (updating) the material and technical base of healthcare institutions and purchasing specialized medical vehicles, purchasing wheelchairs for the disabled, prosthetics for privileged categories of citizens (except for dental prosthetics), as well as paying monetary compensation to disabled people for purchased eye prostheses (35.1 million rubles)

The size of the Capital Investment Fund for next year is 250 million rubles. Next year, the Republican Hospital for the Disabled in Tiraspol will begin reconstructing the rehabilitation and physiotherapy department (3 million rubles), it is planned to build a new building with security and a garage complex for the Republican Emergency Center (6.5 million rubles), and the reconstruction of the Republican Clinical Hospital will continue, including completing the capital construction of the infectious diseases building and starting a major overhaul of the blood transfusion department. The Fund for Capital Investment will be used to reconstruct the therapeutic building (6 million rubles) and floors 1, 3 and 4 of the cardiology building (8.5 million rubles). The building of a former school will be rebuilt into a center for accommodating adults with special needs (10 million rubles) in the village of Sukleya, Slobodzeya District. The Fund for Capital Investment has allocated funding for the overhaul of the Tiraspol park "Pobeda" (10 million rubles) and for the overhaul of buildings of PSU No. 11 (Economics Department) and No. 4 (G), as well as for a dormitory in Bendery (33.5 million rubles for 3 PSU facilities). The estimate of the PMR Road Fund in 2025 is 274.4 million rubles. It is planned to carry out major repairs of sections of republican roads, including along Kishinevskaya Street in Bendery, in Kaushany direction, in Rybnitsa and Grigoriopol districts, and local roads. The Road Fund will be used to repair asphalt concrete surfaces on roads throughout the republic, strengthen shoulders, install bus stops, repair sidewalks along highways passing through villages, mark roads and replace road signs.

The draft budget includes funds for the implementation of measures under the Land Reclamation Complex Development Fund (46 million rubles), the Entrepreneurship Development Funds (23 million rubles, most of which is subsidizing part of the interest rates on preferential loans to enterprises in priority areas), support for agriculture (21.9 million rubles), and to provide housing for young families working in the public sector (7.9 million rubles). The total funding for targeted budget funds is 657 million rubles.

Finance Minister Alena Ruskevich emphasized that the total amount of expenditure has been cut by 25% compared to this year due to the reduction in budget capacity. The Government has proposed reducing funding for other expenses not classified as socially protected.

The law-in-draft provides for a reduction in the parameters of local budgets and the financing of some state programs and a number of target funds. The Supreme Council did not agree with all proposals to reduce target expenditures. For example, with a reduction of 22.7 million rubles in the Fund for Providing State Guarantees to Citizens Entitled to a Land Share. At the plenary session, the funding of the Share Fund, which the bill proposed to redirect to other expenditure items of the republican budget, was returned by the Supreme Council deputies by an amendment in the first reading. What is important is that utility tariffs for the population in 2025 will remain at the same level. The state will continue to compensate natural monopoly enterprises for the difference between tariffs for the population and economically justified tariffs for housing and communal services. 283.5 million rubles have been allocated in the budget for this. The only change in the tariff policy will affect citizens who consume large amounts of electricity. The social norm for electricity consumption has been reduced from 500 to 300 kW/hour per month. The PMR Supreme Council adopted the law-in-draft "On the Republican Budget for 2025" in the first reading. The Committee on Economic Policy, Budget and Finance will continue working on the law-in-draft in the second reading. Subjects of the right of legislative initiative – the President, deputies, the Government, deputies, district and city councils, the Prosecutor's Office and the courts, if necessary, will be able to prepare their amendments for the second reading.