Polish Parliament Votes To Raise Defense Spending
The Poland’s Sejm lower parliamentary house has voted to increase the defense spending from 1.95 percent to 2 percent of GDP on Wednesday.
“This is one of the most important days of my term as defense minister,” said Tomasz Siemoniak, who also serves as deputy PM.
“We are now at the level [of spending] which was recommended by NATO at the summit in Newport,” he told journalists after the parliamentary vote.
The amended bill on defence expenditure now has to be passed through the Senate as well as be rubberstamped by the president.
“I hope that this decision will be incorporated into [Poland’s] budget plans for 2016,” Siemoniak added. The money will bring an additional estimated PLN 1 billion for the defense ministry, which is set to spend the funds on its continuing drive to modernize the army.
In the vote, 402 MPs voted for the expenditure hike, while only two voted against and two abstained.
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