State Budget For 2022 : Orientation Debate In Parliament Tomorrow

There is hustling and bustling at the National Assembly as Members of the House prepare for the Budgetary Orientation Debate on Tuesday, July 6, 2021.  The debate is enshrined in the laws of 11 July 2018 respectively to the fiscal regime of the State and other public entities and the code of transparency and good governance in the management of public finances in Cameroon.
Ahead of the debate proper, government forwarded to the National Assembly, the 2022-2024 Medium-Term Economic and Budgetary Programming Paper to enable the people’s representatives to master all the contours of the State budget under preparation to quiz members of the executive. After the paper was submitted during a plenary sitting of the Lower House of Parliament on Sunday, morning, chaired by House Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, members of the Committee on Finance and Budget met in the afternoon to scrutinise it before the plenary sitting dedicated for its examination. It is intended to enable Parliament to intervene upstream of the budgetary procedure, to better contribute to the definition of the macroeconomic and budgetary framing. Indeed, it is the place for parliamentarians to appropriate the macroeconomic assumptions, underlying the draft budgets in preparation and to give their opinion on the government’s budgetary policy choi...