Legal expert: Parliament can pass the 2022 budget despite the presence of a caretaker government

Legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi confirmed that Parliament can pass the 2022 budget despite the presence of the caretaker government in power, pointing out that the Financial Management Law allows Parliament to do so.

Al-Tamimi said in a press interview, “Parliament has the authority to authorize the caretaker government to send the general budget law because it is related to food security, which is one of the first priorities of the caretaker government.”

He added that “the mandate to send the budget requires a vote of the absolute majority of the number of members in Parliament, and that this right is limited only to the budget law exclusively.”

And he indicated that “the mandate should include the approval of the final accounts of the previous year’s budget in accordance with the Financial Management and Public Debt Law No. 6 of 2019, as all of this comes in accordance with Articles 62, 5 and 61 of the Constitution and 12 and 13 of the Financial Management and Public Debt Law No. 6 of 2019 and articles From 128 to 138 of the Parliament’s Bylaws and Procedures.

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