Sudanese Advisor: The 2024 budget has entered into force... and there is no need to send its schedules to Parliament - urgent
Today, Sunday (April 28, 2024), the financial and economic advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, commented on the implementation of the 2024 budget without its schedules being approved by Parliament.
Saleh said, to “Baghdad Today,” that “the experience of the tripartite public budgets approved under the Federal General Budget Law No. 13 of 2023 (the tripartite budget) has become a binding law to be applied regularly and in an annual hierarchy without interruption and in accordance with public finance applications in implementing the details of the general budget itself.”
In both its operational and investment aspects, and because the application of the three-year budget experience as a medium-term financial plan has been approved in our country for the first time, in accordance with a text contained in the amended Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019.”
He stated that “the general budget for the year 2024 has become obligatory to implement since the country entered its new fiscal year and in accordance with the laws and financial and economic data contained in the texts of Law No. 13 of 2023 mentioned above, including operational expenses and investment expenses for current and new investment projects, as long as they occur.” Within the general budget constants No. 13 above.
Saleh stressed, “The text stated in the Tripartite Budget Law that the executive authority submits tables related to expenditures, revenues, and the estimated deficit for the current fiscal year 2024 is a constitutional and supervisory context and falls within the duties of the legislative authority.
Based on the above, working with the constants of the Federal General Budget Law ( The tripartite budget does not conflict with the progress in implementing the requirements of the national development program, especially in implementing new projects whose allocations are approved within the law, and that this executive mechanism is the basis on which the tripartite budget philosophy was based, which provided legal flexibility in advancing the wheels of economic development projects without time delays and loss of time opportunities.
Therefore, presenting the expenditure and revenue schedules for the fiscal year 2024 is a context undertaken by the legislative authority within its constitutional oversight duties to ensure the progress of implementation of the federal tripartite budget law link