At the end of the minister’s presentation, the finance and budget committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) read its preliminary report containing recommendations for each sector.
It was in front of a sparse hemicycle that the Minister of Finance, Laaziz Faid, presented, yesterday in plenary session, the finance bill (PLF) 2025. 257 deputies registered to participate in the debates and night sessions are planned until tomorrow, the last day of debates, around this text of law which had been drawn up, according to the country’s top financier, in a context marked by the rise in the inflation rate in most world economies, the persistence of geopolitical tensions and restrictive monetary policies, tightening financial conditions and weak trade and investments, in addition to climate disasters.
At the end of the minister’s presentation, the finance and budget committee of the National People’s Assembly (APN) read its preliminary report containing recommendations for each sector, based on the concerns raised by the various ministers and heads of institutions that the members of the commission had to hear as part of the examination of this text of law. The committee, on the other hand, formulated eight amendment proposals which, however, in no way call into question the main lines of this text of law. Two of them relate to tax increases.
Also, the deputies in their report proposed the modification of provision 187 by redistributing the income from the sale of corals definitively seized, by increasing the percentage for the benefit of the State budget to 80% instead of 70% , and by reducing the percentage for the benefit of the National Agency for the Development of Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture to 20% instead of 30%.
Several questions, reports the commission’s rapporteur, caught their attention following the preliminary study of the project, which led it to draw up recommendations, including the establishment of a more reliable information system. at the level of public services and greater coordination between the different sectors, in the area of public finance management.
Criticisms from MPs
The deputies called for the development of a financial information system, updating the accounting system which makes it possible to estimate the costs of each program, and to set its budget. The commission also recommended improving the quality of the development and implementation of investment programs, while proposing financing for projects that have reached the required level of maturity, in order to to avoid delays in completion and frequent recourse to revaluation processes that are costly to the public purse.
Furthermore, during the debates several deputies took shots at certain ministers who, according to them, were not “up to their mission”. Barbara Hadj Cheikh of the Front El Moustakbal attacked, without naming them, the ministers who had not honored their commitments. Also, he deplored the “lack of communication” from the government.
For her part, Bengrina Al Baraa, at the start of her speech, noted the reduced presence of members of the government, while the debate in this plenary concerns one of the most important bills. In his speech, RND elected official Hadj Ali Brahim believes that our “banking system is weak and very slow compared to the objectives to which Algeria aspires”.
By evaluating the work of the sectors, he judges that the health department remains lagging behind despite the efforts made by the State to improve services. To this end, he cites the inequitable distribution of financial funds dedicated to hospitals. This, according to him, has a negative impact on the health care of citizens.
