The OGE2023, which estimates revenues and sets expenditures of 20.1 billion kwanzas, will be considered by deputies during the third extraordinary plenary meeting of the first legislative session of the V Legislature of the National Assembly as a single point.
The agenda for the first plenary meetings of 2023 was approved last Friday during the conference of the presidents of the parliamentary groups, chaired by the president of parliament, Carolina Cerqueira.
The presentation of political declarations by parliamentary leaders was also approved for next Friday's plenary session.
The draft resolutions on the assessment of OGE execution reports for the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2022 will be voted on at the second extraordinary plenary meeting of the first legislative session of the V Legislature of the National Assembly, scheduled for 12 January.
The deputies are also discussing on this day a draft resolution that approves the replacement of an advisory judge of the Constitutional Court, appointed by the National Assembly.
Deputy Rosa Branco, fourth secretary of the National Assembly, reported, at the end of the conference, that the parliament will hold a formal session on 11 January on the occasion of the visit to Angola of the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema.
The President approved an additional debt of 2.6 billion kwanzas until the entry into force of the 2023 State Budget, to meet the financing needs of budgeted projects.
João Lourenço, in Presidential Decree No. 296/22 of December 30, which Lusa had access to last week, mentions that while the 2023 General State Budget is not approved by the National Assembly, the Minister of Finance is authorized to issue public debt securities, in the form of Treasury Bonds (OT), in the amount of 2.6 billion kwanzas.
The OGE2023 proposal, prepared at an average price of 75 dollars per barrel of oil, was delivered to parliament on December 9, 2022 and will be discussed and voted on in general on the 13th of this month.
The Minister of State for Economic Coordination, Manuel Nunes Júnior, who delivered the document, said at the time that the OGE2023 has a surplus of 0.9 percent and that the expected growth rate will be greater than the growth rate of the population.
The OGE2023 proposal will fundamentally fulfill two objectives, namely the "continuation of the country's economic growth and the continuation of prudent budgetary management".
