2025 ends… Parliament calls on Sudan to prepare a 2026 budget
2025 ends… Parliament calls on Sudan to prepare a 2026 budget
2025-08-01 08:09
Shafaq News – Baghdad
The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed on Friday that the government’s delay in submitting the 2025 budget schedules to Parliament for approval constitutes a legal violation. While anticipating that the schedules will not be submitted soon, the committee called on the government to begin preparing a draft 2026 budget law.
Committee member Moeen Al-Kadhimi told Shafaq News Agency, “The government’s delay in submitting the 2025 budget schedules is a legal violation, as funding and disbursements since the beginning of the year and continuing until now are problematic, given that the Triennial Budget Law No. 13 of 2023 obligated the government to submit budget schedules that are approved annually, as happened in 2024.”
Therefore, as Al-Kadhimi adds, “The government should have submitted the 2025 budget schedules before the end of 2024, but it was delayed. Recently, the Prime Minister’s Office issued a directive to the Ministry of Finance to postpone the 2025 budget schedules and prepare for the 2026 budget.”
A member of the Finance Committee ruled out approving the budget schedules anytime soon, “given that the government has only five months left in its term, and that it continues to fund employee and pensioner salaries, social welfare, and operating and investment expenses based on the state treasury’s available funds.”
Regarding the 2026 budget, Al-Kadhimi said, “If the government is serious about preparing it, it should begin doing so now, based on oil price estimates and market conditions, and then submit the draft to the next government.”
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