Mozambique: Parliament resumes plenary sessions

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Mozambique: Parliament resumes plenary sessions

2:42 CAT | 20 Oct 2021

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The Mozambican parliament resumes its plenary sessions this Wednesday after a five-month break, with an agenda featuring the approval of the 2022 State Budget among its high points.

The start of the session will be dedicated to speeches by President of the Assembly of the Republic, Esperança Bias, and the whips of the three parliamentary benches.

In addition to the 2022 State Budget, the 250 deputies will also debate the Economic and Social Plan (PES) for next year.

The State Budget and the PES forecast 2.9% economic growth in 2022, after the country contracted by 1.28% in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The documents also forecast an average annual inflation rate of 5.3%, revenue of 293 billion meticais (€3.9 billion) and expenditure of 450 billion meticais (€6 billion), producing a deficit of 157 billion meticais (€2.1 billion) – about 14% of GDP.

The plenary session that begins today will also debate the proposed laws on media and broadcasting alongside the rules and criteria that define the setting of remuneration for employees and agents of the state and other public servants, including in public health.

The agenda also includes the debate on the proposed law on the mandatory social security system for state employees and the proposed revision of the law on the General Statute of State Employees and Agents.

Parliament will also analyse the bills for the National Service for Public Safety (SENSAP), fire protection and the draft revision of the organic law of the Constitutional Council.

The plenary session, which will run until December, will also be marked by the annual speech by the Head of State, annual information from the Ombudsman, information from the government and questions to members of the government.

The Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), party in power for 45 years since independence, currently has a qualified majority in of 184 of parliament’s 250 seats. The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) holds 60 seats and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), six.

Source: Lusa