Breaking: Finance Committee Rejects All Government Budgets

Four days after the Pastef/Les Patriotes parliamentary majority halted consideration of the 2026 supplementary finance bill, the National Assembly’s Finance and Budgetary Control Committee refused to approve the 2027 initial finance bill and ministry budgets. Committee chair Alphonse Mané Sambou had asked for the bill to be withdrawn, arguing that its projections relied on the rejected 2026 supplementary budget and should instead be recalculated using the 2026 initial budget. The Finance Ministry, led by Cheikh Diba, rejected the request, saying that rejection of a supplementary finance bill does not automatically require withdrawal of the following year’s budget.