Despite the many doubts expressed during the examination of the project which required hearing each person responsible for budget envelopes, the National Assembly voted identically for the 2021 draft finance law adopted more than a month later. early by the Council of Ministers, or 2,681.5 billion CFA francs.
f they had taken care, in accordance with the law, to hear each of the 24 ministers who came to present their statement of needs for the year 2021, the deputies voted identically on the draft finance law adopted on October 13. last by the Council of Ministers. In 2021, the resources and expenses of the State will therefore be CFAF 2,681.5 billion.
In the amended finance law of 2020, they amounted to CFAF 3,047.1 billion. It is therefore a decrease of 365.6 billion, as presented by the Minister of Budget and Public Accounts six weeks earlier. According to the daily L’Union, the vote on this law during the plenary session of November 25 at the National Assembly did not happen without recommendations from elected officials.
Among them, Faustin Boukoubi, president of the institution, and his colleagues raised the issue of the wage bill, which remains too high and for which it is more than urgent to find mechanisms to reduce it. Clearly, the deputies challenged the leaders on the need to improve the procedures of public expenditure.
The 2021 finance bill is now on the senators’ table. We don’t expect any surprises. The institution chaired by Dr Lucie Milebou Aubusson ep. Mboussou should vote for the text identically.