Speaker of the National Assembly Sameer Suleman has refused to take on the President, and says Parliament will not challenge his decision to postpone the sitting planned for November 9 to December 11. Suleman says he has taken no action against the President. “I think we should listen to the President. What he is seeing […]
The Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament has criticised the decision to postpone the mid-year budget review meeting, warning that without it lawmakers cannot judge whether the budget is achieving its intended results. Committee chairperson Sosten Gwengwe said the review was needed to establish whether the budget was meeting its objectives and outputs. “The rest […]
A row has erupted over the postponement of Malawi’s Mid-Year Budget Review Meeting, with an opposition youth leader accusing President Peter Mutharika of misleading the public about the fate of the crucial parliamentary sitting. Moses Malondera, youth director of the MCP, launched a fierce attack on the President after Parliament announced that the review meeting, […]
Parliament will reconvene on 9 November for a five-week review of government spending, Speaker Sameer Suleman has announced.
Malawi’s Minister of Finance Joseph Mwanamvekha has moved to reassure the nation that plans by the British government to slash financial support to the country by a staggering 90 per cent will not derail the 2026/27 national budget — insisting the dramatic cut had already been factored in before the budget was drawn up. The […]
There is a particular kind of vindication that comes from watching your successor discover the arithmetic you once had to live with. Sosten Gwengwe, who held Malawi’s finance portfolio under the Chakwera government, now chairs Parliament’s Budget and Finance Committee — and from that vantage point, he has delivered a verdict on the current administration’s […]
Niras Malawi, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on Tuesday drilled four parliamentary committees on budgetary governance. The committees involved were of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Climate change, HIV and Aids and Nutrition. The NGO Malawi country director Christopher Mpanga said the workshop, which took place in Salima, was aimed at building the capacity of the committees […]
Malawi Parliament has passed the revised K2.3 trillion national budget after a brief showdown between government and opposition legislators over Local government vote. Earlier, opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators rejected the Local government vote, saying it did not include construction of houses for chiefs and their increased allowances. This led to a parliamentary division […]
Finance minister Felix Mlusu has backed the decision to increase State Residences budget, saying they need massive rehabilitation. Mlusu said after taking over power, the Tonse Government found most of the State Residences in bad shape, adding that some were even leaking. Asked why the state residences were in such bad shape when year in […]
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee, Gladys Ganda, has said the economic growth projections at 3.5 percent as contained in the mid-term budget statement presented on Friday February 26, 2021 by Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu have been “overstated”. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, March 4, 2021 “to offer a few reflections as […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Monday responded to the Mid-Term Budget Review Statement presented by Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu which has increased the fiscal plan by K144 billion, saying Malawians voters who ushered President Lazarus Chakwera into power feel betrayed and are hopeless. DPP spokesperson of Finance in Parliament Joseph Mwanamvekha said the budget […]
Finance Minister Felix Mlusu is upbeat that the Tonse alliance led government will fulfill its campaign promises. He said the campaign promises include provision of free water and electricity connections. The country’s purse keeper said the works are currently in process as the policy is now being developed and that its implementation is expected to […]
The Ministry of Finance says it has started translating national budget documents into local languages in order to provide summarized and simplified contents of the budgets to rural citizens to enable them take part in tracking implementation of the fiscal plans. Assistant Budget Director, Lawrence Ngwalangwa, said government has termed the translated, surmarized and simplified […]
Officials at National Assembly say the mid-year budget meeting will go ahead despite the fact that Covid-19 is attacking more legislators. Parliament reconvenes from February 8, 2021, a meeting that will last for three weeks as the House will hold a midyear review of the K2.2 trillion national budget which was passed in October 2020. […]
Malawi Government has changed its fiscal year from the one that starts on July 1 and ends on June 30 to one that will start on April 1 and end on March 31. Secretary for Economic Planning and Development and Public Sector Reforms Winford Masanjala has disclosed the change in a memo to all heads […]
A high-powered Malawi government delegation led by Finance Minister Felix Mlusu held a bilateral dialogue meeting with the European Union (EU) at Capital Hill in Lilongwe on Wednesday to request the EU to “consider the resumption of direct budgetary support” but the plea was rebuffed. Mlusu was flanked at the meeting with Minister of Foreign […]
Despite coronavirus wreaking havoc on the Malawi economy and depressed revenue, Members of Parliament (MPs) have handed themselves an inflation-busting a huge increases in salaries and allowance, bringing their salary bill to almost K3.4 billion in the current fiscal year from K2.4 billion in the 2019 /20 fiscal year. Even in the wake of 2020/21 national […]
There was visible relief and jubilation from government benches whose members stood up in celebration after Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani Hara declared that the Tonse Alliance’s first national budget presented by Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu on September 4, 2020 had passed after members approved it. Leader of the House, Richard Chimwendo-Banda said following the […]