Czech MPs approve 2024 state budget in final reading

The Czech Chamber of Deputies approved next year’s state budget in the third reading on Wednesday. The budget for 2024 envisages a deficit of CZK 252 billion, which is CZK 43 billion less than this year’s approved deficit.

As in previous budget discussions in the lower house, verbal spats between the opposition and the government were seen in Wednesday’s session, which concluded late in the evening.

During the final budget debate MPs rubberstamped 13 transfers of funding, amounting to CZK 2.7 billion, within the already set parameters.

The Senate has no say on the budget and it only remains for the president to sign it into law.