Mozambique: Parliament approves its own budget for 2021

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Mozambique: Parliament approves its own budget for 2021

4:00 CAT | 27 Nov 2020

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The Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique yesterday approved by consensus a budget for 2021 of about two billion meticais (€22.7 million).

The proposal approved on Thursday by all three benches of the Mozambican parliament increases the institution’s budget by 654 million meticais (€7.5 million from this year’s 1,345 million meticais (€15.2 million).

The budget, presented by the chairman of the board of directors of the Assembly of the Republic, Deputy Hélder Injonjo, foresees the largest share for “other personnel expenditure”, amounting to 995 million meticais (€11.3 million).

As previously reported by AIM, “the cost of the deputies’ salaries is not stated as such. There is a line for ‘Salaries and Remuneration’ – but this is to pay Assembly staff. (…) The deputies’ own salaries are placed coyly in the item described as ‘other personnel expenditure’”.

Wages and salaries will cost 203 million meticais (€2.3 million).

For investment costs, 184 million meticais (about €2 million) is set aside for vehicles, maintenance of parliamentary infrastructure, and investment in information and communication technologies.

“Next year’s budget was prepared based on the following assumptions: strengthening the connection between deputies and constituencies, consolidating the legislative function, and strengthening the supervisory function,” Injonjo said during the presentation of the document to the Assembly on Wednesday.

The Mozambican parliament is made up of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), with 184 deputies, the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), with 60 deputies, and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), with six.

Source: Lusa