Saleh: The tripartite budget gave the government flexibility to implement its medium-term plans
The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, confirmed that the Federal General Budget Law No. 13 of 2023 (the tripartite budget) granted the executive authority high flexibility in implementing the state’s medium-term financial plan for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Saleh told {Al-Furat News} agency, “In implementation of the provisions of Article 2/77 of the law above, which stipulates that the government shall submit financial schedules related to expenditures, public revenues, and the planned deficit for the fiscal years 2024 and 2025, in order to provide a flexible space that allows for the implementation of the general budget in an efficient and reliable manner.” In accordance with the constants stipulated in Law No. 13 mentioned above.”
He pointed out that “the matter relates to the schedules for the fiscal year 2025 and the possibilities of approving expenditures that may arise in the next fiscal year, or the exhaustion of other expenditures whose deadlines have expired in terms of timing, or the expiration of expenditure commitments and the replacement of new commitments for expenditures during the next fiscal year, and in appreciation of the circumstances surrounding the economy.” Overall, the Federal Ministry of Finance, as a supreme financial authority, in cooperation with the Ministry of Planning (which is the ministry concerned with development projects and overall investment spending), will undoubtedly undertake to provide the necessary adjustments in the financial tables that will be presented for the year 2025 so that they can be studied, starting with the Ministerial Council for the Economy and in accordance with the contexts stipulated by it. Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019, as amended, then the financial tables in question receive the approval of the Council of Ministers, so that they can be approved in the House of Representatives.”
At the same time, Saleh noted that “there is high and continuous coordination between the parliamentary finance committee concerned with following up and monitoring financial developments in the country and in accordance with the constitution, and between the plans, programs and mechanisms adopted by the financial authority in implementation, which are mutual constitutional guarantees to achieve the country’s supreme interests in development and economic stability.” “To the fullest extent.”
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