On Thursday, November 30, 2023, Cameroon’s Parliament made an effort to block the government’s plan for the country’s economy, society, culture, and finances for the upcoming fiscal year 2024. The late presentation of the financial bill for 2024 by executives prompted Cameroon’s parliamentarians to attempt this.
Article 57 of the law governing the State financial scheme, which mandates that the financial bill be presented in the House of Assembly before Parliament at least 15 days prior to the opening of the new budget session, was broken, in accordance with Cameroon’s constitution. Only late in the afternoon on Thursday, November 30, 2023, was the finance bill introduced.
Some lawmakers claimed that the financial bill’s tardy presentation was an indication of division within the administration. A member of the Cameroon Party for National Reconciliation (PCRN), MP Cabral Libii, noted that of the 15000 pages anticipated in the annexes, they had only received 122 pages of the first section of the 2024 Finance Law. He continued by affirming that it was legally required to be delivered to the Parliament eight days prior to the end of the thirty-day session, or two weeks before it began.
“According to the law, we should have received it two weeks before the start of the 30-day session. Eight days before the end, the 2024 Finance Bill is still awaited by the National Assembly,”.
Libii further stated that the parliamentarians of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) and the Cameroon Democratic Union (UDC) have been granted the authority to collaborate in order to compel the government to present bills in accordance with the country’s stipulated laws.
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