The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada has recommended that President Viktor Yushchenko sign into law a bill amending the national budget to allocate additional financing for hosting the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine within three days.
The ruling was supported by 262 out of the 402 deputies present at the session hall.
The document says that, if the president does not sign the bill into
law, the parliament will instruct the Verkhovna Rada chairman to carry
out all the necessary procedures to make sure that the bill takes legal
effect.
It was reported earlier that the Verkhovna Rada had amended the 2009
budget to allocate an extra UAH 9.8 billion to finance preparations for
the Euro 2012 through advancing the National Bank of Ukraine’s
revenues. The president vetoed the bill and returned it to the
parliament along with his proposals on it.
The Verkhovna Rada overrode the veto by voting for the bill on
financing the Euro 2012 by a constitutional majority, but the president
again returned the bill to the parliament with new minor changes, so
interpreting it as a new bill rather than that overriding his previous
veto.
