Malawi Parliament’s budget session set Sept 4

MZUZU-(MaraviPost)-Speaker of the National Assembly, Catherine Gotani Hara, has on Saturday announced that parliament will convene on September 4 this year to deliberate on 2020/2021 budget.

According to the Parliament boss, the session will run until October 9 and Head of State, Dr Lazarus Chakwera, will officially grace the opening.

This will be Chakwera’s first time to present a State of the National Address, since he took over government in June this year.

In July, parliament passed a four month provisional budget which was pegged at MK721 billion.

Meanwhile, following the regime change, development partners have pledged to resume direct budgetary support to Malawi. So far, African Development Bank (ADB) has already pledged US$40 billion towards the budget.

The Democratic Development Party (DPP) government passed a MK1.7 trillion budget for the 2020/2021 budget until the new government called it off and replaced it with the four month provisional one.

Richard Kayenda

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