The Prime Minister strongly promised that he would not accept the communist request to cut the defense budget down by 10 billion Crowns. In the end he eventually did accept it, saying that the opposition was to blame, because it did not want to approve the Government's proposal for the entire budget, so the Government needed the …
In an interview for the Právo journal, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš assured the public that the 10 billion crowns, lost as part of the Communist requirement in the process of approving the state budget, will be returned to the Army budget in January.
The state budget for next year can be approved, because the Government parties ANO and ČSSD finally accepted the communist request to take 10 billion crowns from the budget chapter of the Ministry of Defense, and allocate it to the reserve to „fight the coronavirus pandemic.“