LFR 2026 : Amadou Ba Invokes Article 83 and Requests the Rejection of the ...
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The rejection of this amending bill casts uncertainty on this $2.2 billion (€1.93 billion) aid expected from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Fund's board of directors has still not approved the preliminary agreement reached in September between the international institution and the Senegalese authorities. The opposition party Pastef, the majority in the Assembly, is headed by the President of the Ousmane Sonko National Assembly, scram…
On Tuesday, 3 November 2026, the National Assembly of Senegal rejected, in plenary session, the draft law on amending finance (LFR) 2026. Of 165 registered MPs, 132 voted the preliminary question: 109 votes in favour, 20 against, 3 abstentions. The House did not even consider it useful to debate the government text. It is a first [...] SENEGAL article: An amended Finance Act 2026 rejected (A non-historical, a popular ultimatum) appeared first on…
In the debate on Bill 2026 (LFR) on Tuesday in the National Assembly, MP Alfonse Mané Samb, Chairman of the Law and Finance Committee, strongly questioned the government on the sincerity of the budget figures and the choices made in terms of public investment. The parliamentarian estimates that the budget deficit, projected at 7.6% of GDP, could be reduced to a lower level in view of the low level of implementation of investment expenditure.
MP Amadou Ba asked the National Assembly to vote on the preliminary question in order to reject definitively the draft law on amending finance (LFR) 2026, which he considered devoid of budgetary sincerity. He invoked rule 83 of the Rules of Procedure. "The debate should not be reduced to a confrontation between the government and the majority", he argued, believing that it posed "a fundamental question: that of the sincerity of the budget." The …
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