The Parliamentary Finance Committee vows to stop the “farce” of the 2025 budget schedules: a clear legal violation, and we will not vote for them.
On Thursday, MP Bassem Al-Gharabi, a member of the parliamentary finance committee, strongly criticized the Ministry of Finance for sending the 2025 budget schedules in April of 2026, considering this a “clear violation” of the law and a “clear breach” of the binding financial deadlines.
Shafaq News Agency publishes the document issued by the Ministry of Finance/Budget Department on April 28, 2026, and signed by Minister Taif Sami, which shows the referral of the general budget tables for the year 2025 and the deficit financing table to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers for the purpose of sending them to the House of Representatives for approval.
Al-Gharabi explained in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency that Article (77/Second) of the Three-Year Budget Law No. 13 of 2023 requires that these schedules be sent before the end of the previous fiscal year (end of 2024), and not after the end of the fiscal year in its entirety.
Al-Gharabi added that “what happened practically means dealing with a completed fiscal year, which is contrary to the principle of annual budgeting stipulated in Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019, as it is not permissible to exceed the fiscal year or reopen it after it has been closed.”
The member of the Finance Committee stressed that this measure lacks legal basis and disrupts the work of oversight and final accounts, calling on the concerned authorities to clarify the legal basis and determine responsibilities.
Al-Gharabi concluded by saying: “We will put an end to this farce in the management of state funds, and we will not vote on the schedules if they are sent to the council for the purpose of legal cover-ups and evading accountability.”
Shafaq.com