Budget marathon under pressure in the Assembly

By Isabella Luisa CAPELLI l LAMINE MEDIA

(Bangui on October 4, 2026, l LAMINE MEDIA) The second ordinary session of the legislative year has officially opened, plunging the Central African deputies into a three-month marathon. Until December 29, 2026, the nation’s elected officials will have the heavy task of dissecting, questioning, and voting on the state’s budget choices. At the heart of the debates: the historical passage to the "programme budget" for the year 2027, but also a serious institutional call to order.
This is the most crucial meeting of the year for the public finances of the Central African Republic. For nearly ninety days, the hemicycle of Bangui will vibrate to the rhythm of discussions of "big money". This session, which is mainly budgetary, must determine the country’s economic trajectory for the 2027 fiscal year, with growth ambitions projected at 2.7% and inflation contained at 3.3%.
Barely open, this session opened with a major political update. The President of the National Assembly, Mathieu Simplice Sarandji, publicly deplored the recurring delay of the government of Félix Moloua in submitting the Finance Bill.
According to the texts in force, the budget copy should have been on the MPs' table no later than 15 September. A constitutional breach that, according to the head of the perch, reduces the analysis time necessary for elected officials to rigorously control public action. The tone is set: the deputies do not intend to play the recording rooms.
Beyond political friction, the year 2027 marks a major technical and strategic turning point for the CAR. The State definitively abandons the old budgetary nomenclature to switch to the "programme budget" system.
From now on, public money will no longer be allocated by global and opaque envelopes to ministries.Each CFA franc spent must be directly linked to precise and measurable performance objectives. This reform, crucial for transparency, aims above all to reassure international financial partners and optimize the impact of public services on the daily lives of Central Africans.
The four priorities in MPs' sights
By December 29, the debates will focus on four major strategic areas:
• Fiscal sovereignty: Maximizing the collection of customs and domestic revenue to reduce dependence on external aid.
• Economic recovery: Directing investments toward the key sectors of agriculture, mining, and forestry.
• Debt repayment: Pay the state’s domestic arrears to give local businesses breathing space and revive the private sector.
• Parliamentary modernization: Use this session to accelerate the digital transition of working methods within the Assembly itself.
The period that is about to begin will therefore be particularly dense. Between the urgent need to revive the national economy and the demand for transparency, parliamentarians have less than three months to provide the Central African Republic with a budget commensurate with its ambitions.


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Date: October 4 2026
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