The role of parliament in the budgetary process-the example of Croatian parliament (2000-2003)

The Croatian Parliament has the right to modify the Government's proposal of the budget, which in reality it does very rarely, because the ruling coalition has a majority of votes, as well as because the members mainly follow the party line. This is the basic reason for the relative insignificance of the Parliament as compared with the part it might really play during the legislative phase of the budgetary process. Research carried out in Parliament indicated drawbacks and shortcomings of the Parliament and showed that there is a lot of room for enlarging the importance of Parliament in the budgetary process