Inside the Palace on the Amended Finance Bill: What Diomaye’s Pen Can Still Do Against Pastef

The debate over the amended finance bill (LFR) concerns what President Bassirou Diomaye Faye could do if the National Assembly rejected it. Deputy Amadou Ba argues that rejection is not an exceptional circumstance under Article 52 of the Constitution and cannot justify the use of emergency powers. An analyst distinguishes an explicit rejection, which would rule out adopting the bill by ordinance, from a failure to vote, which could leave that option open to the president. If the initial finance law is not adopted by December 31, the budget is renewed in provisional twelfths, but the legal position on the LFR remains uncertain.