MPs submit record 3,339 amendments to 2026 state budget draft
Ukrainian lawmakers have submitted a total of 3,339 amendments to the draft state budget for 2026 – 59% more than they proposed for the 2025 budget – setting a 19-year record, according to Roksolana Pidlasa, chair of the Verkhovna Rada’s Budget Committee and member of the Servant of the People faction.
"Members of Parliament have broken a 19-year record for the number of budget amendments. A total of 3,339 amendments were submitted to the 2026 draft budget – more than 59% higher than last year. For the 2025 budget, MPs submitted 2,098 amendments," Pidlasa wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
According to her, the largest number of amendments – 910 – came from European Solidarity. Servant of the People submitted 652, Reasonable Politics inter-factional group – 470, and Holos – 437.
Among individual MPs, the most active were Artur Herasymov (European Solidarity), who submitted 662 amendments; Yaroslav Zhelezniak (Holos) – 254; and Dmytro Razumkov – 254.
"If each amendment were given at least 90 seconds for review, their discussion would take over 10 full working days," Pidlasa added.
As reported earlier, on September 15 the government submitted the 2026 state budget draft to Parliament. The document envisions expenditures of UAH 4.8 trillion (+UAH 415 billion compared to the 2025 budget) and revenues of UAH 2.83 trillion (+UAH 446.8 billion), with a deficit estimated at 18.4% of GDP (down 3.9 percentage points from 2025). Defense spending is set at UAH 2.8 trillion (27.2% of GDP), up by UAH 168.6 billion.
On September 19, the Verkhovna Rada reviewed the government’s 2026 budget proposal and accepted it for further consideration.