Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Standing Commission of the Assembly of the Republic yesterday postponed the debate on the Proposal for the Economic and Social Plan and State Budget (PESOE) 2025, initially scheduled for today. The information was released early this evening by the press office of the Assembly of the Republic, at the end of another extraordinary session of parliament’s Standing Commission.
According to the press release, the postponement is due to the fact that the government did not send some annexes of the PESOE 2025, without however providing details of the missing annexes.
However, ‘Carta’ has learned that the issue at hand is the lack of “budget maps” that usually accompany that document. Budget maps are documents that indicate the volume of resources that the government intends to allocate to each public institution throughout the country.
The issue was raised by the parliamentary group of the MDM (Mozambican Democratic Movement), which requested that the session be postponed, and it was rescheduled for this Thursday.
The PESOE 2025 proposal was approved on Tuesday of last week and submitted to parliament the previous Wednesday. It was distributed to MPs the previous Friday.
“Having examined the Proposal for the Economic and Social Plan and State Budget, distributed to MPs on Friday (02-05), we found that it contains discrepancies in the data and does not include, as has been the practice, the accompanying and integral maps that allow us to assess where, in fact, the GOVERNMENT intends to allocate resources, in addition to the fact that the annexes constitute a guarantee of transparency in the distribution and use of public resources,” the MDM argues in the request for postponement submitted to the President of the Assembly of the Republic.
The MDM also questions the lack of parliamentary hearings of the government by the Working Commissions, a routine procedure that takes place during the assessment of bills, the government’s Five-Year Programme and the PESOE.
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