2027 budget: majority doubts the accuracy of the figures
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Deputy Fatou Cissé Goudiaby, of the Pastef group, justifies the rejection of the first part of the 2027 budget on the grounds of documents submitted late and doubts about the accuracy of the figures. She also highlights the lack of time to examine a budget of CFA francs 7,353 billion, according to Senego.
Deputy Fatou Cissé Goudiaby, a member of the Pastef parliamentary group, justifies the rejection of the first part of the 2027 initial finance bill (PLFI) on the grounds of budget documents submitted too late, doubts about the accuracy of the figures and weak execution of certain expenditure. She also criticises the lack of time to examine a budget of CFA francs 7,353 billion, according to her statement entitled "Why we rejected the PLFI 2027".
Submitted on 12 October, the PLFI 2027 was supplemented by several documents only days, or even hours, before the work began. Fatou Cissé Goudiaby cites the expenditure programming documents, the annual performance projects, the debt management strategy and the documents relating to ways and means. She also regrets the absence of the 2024 and 2025 laws on settlement, the September budget execution report, the Inspectorate General of Finance (IGF) report on hidden debt, the Mazars report and the audit of the national single register of family security grant beneficiaries. For the deputy, "how do you expect us to scrutinise CFA francs 7,353 billion in 24 hours? You gave them to us, yes, but too late to read them. It is as if you had not given them at all".
Beyond the documentary issue, she points to imbalances in the budgets for Health, Culture, Tourism and Crafts, and Family. She notes a tendency to favour operating costs over investment, as well as insufficient execution of credits intended for the population. The budget of the Ministry of Family, of which 92% is reportedly concentrated in a single distribution programme, is a particular focus of her questions.
