Cheikh Diba criticises lack of debate on Senegal’s supplementary budget
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Senegal’s Economy Minister Cheikh Diba criticised MPs for preventing debate on the 2026 supplementary finance bill, which was referred back to committee after being rejected. He said CFA 173 billion of the CFA 762 billion expected for the Economic and Social Recovery Plan had been mobilised by the end of September, according to Senego.
Senegal’s Minister of Economy, Finance and Planning, Cheikh Diba, regretted that the National Assembly had not debated the 2026 supplementary finance bill after rejecting it. He said Senegalese people had therefore been unable to learn about the government’s budget choices, Senego reported.
Diba said that CFA 173 billion had been mobilised by the end of September out of the CFA 762 billion expected under the Economic and Social Recovery Plan. The government hopes to reach CFA 311 billion by the end of the year. He also defended the additional CFA 540.3 billion in energy subsidies proposed by the bill, which would bring the total to CFA 790.3 billion, compared with CFA 250 billion in the initial budget.
The minister justified submitting the supplementary budget by changes in revenue and expenditure, and attributed the rise in oil prices to international tensions, particularly in the Middle East. MP Ismaïla Diallo warned that the bill would be rejected again if lawmakers’ conditions were not met. The government had referred the bill to committee under Article 84 of the Assembly’s rules of procedure.
The supplementary budget bill was rejected by the finance committee on 23 October. It was then sent back to committee on 27 October, ahead of the debate scheduled in plenary for 3 November.
