Luanda - Deputies to the National Assembly on Tuesday, in Luanda, defended greater rigour in monitoring the actions programmed in the 2025 General State Budget, to meet the needs of the population.
When questioning members of the government's economic team, during the meeting that analyzed the Angolan Productive Sector, within the scope of the 2025 State Budget debate session, parliamentarians considered it important to ensure that the funds are effectively applied to the projects included in the budget.
During the meeting between deputies and members of the government, the MPs presented several concerns, with emphasis on public works, energy and water, agriculture and forests, environment, media, fisheries and marine resources and transport.
The MPLA deputy, José Ndambuca, said that it is extremely important that the budget be a priority in projects that are on hold for completion.
“We cannot start new works when there are some projects that have stopped, we need to finish them and then start new projects”, he highlighted.
UNITA deputy, Monteiro Eliseu, defended greater supervision in the execution of projects included in the State Budget and the accountability for non-compliant companies.
He stressed that the government has a deadline and construction companies must meet deadlines and be concerned with the quality of the works, highlighting the need to increase the number of public buses to facilitate the mobility of public servants.
The MPLA deputy Maria Escovalo, highlighted the importance of investing in agriculture, considering it to be a basis for the development of societies, advocating the implementation of agricultural input distribution projects, as they are production factors and guarantee plant nutrition and protection, resulting in good productivity and product quality.
Paulo de Carvalho, from the MPLA, said that it is currently essential to control fires and combat wood smuggling, as well as reinforce the rehabilitation of roads to facilitate the flow of agricultural production.
In turn, Deputy Armando Caquepa, from UNITA, expressed concern about the execution of some works in the province of Cuanza-Sul, which take a long time to complete.
“We cannot have work from 2017 in the 2025 budget, we have projects in the province of Cuanza-Sul that are not concluded,” he said.
Deputy Faustino Mumbica, also from UNITA, called for greater support and the creation of more projects for family farming and training in the productive and scientific education sector.
Among other actions, the 2025 State Budget draft law plans to massify the consumption of goods and services produced in national territory, establishing the Legal Regime for Incentives to National Production, through the contracting of public entities.
The Budget foresees a growth in the national economy of around 4.14% and a reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) on production equipment, from the current 14% to 5%, maintaining the payment period introduced in 2023 of up to 24 months.
The document also includes measures to support investment in food security, through the restructuring and dynamization of the cereals and grains sector, strengthening agricultural mechanization, fundamentally with regard to family agricultural production.
The 2025 State Budget estimates revenues and expenses of around 34.6 billion kwanzas.
The draft law was prepared on the basis of an oil price of 70 dollars/barrel and an oil production of over 1 million barrels of oil per day, avoiding lower inflation in the order of 16.6%, relative to the inflation rate accumulated 23.4% expected until the end of 2024.
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