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National Budget 2025: Opposition Expresses Frustration Over Government Withholding Utilisation Details
Opposition MPs and leaders have criticised the Muizzu administration for presenting the MVR 56.6 billion 2025 National Budget to Parliament without project-level allocations, hardcopies or a working budget website. Concerns were raised at a Budget Committee meeting and at a PNF rally, with former Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer calling it the most secretive budget in Maldivian history.
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What happened
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Thu 31 OctMinister of Finance Moosa Zameer presented the 2025 national budget to Parliament.31 Octoberonly Maldives RepublicWhile Minister of Finance Moosa Zameer presented the budget to Parliament on 31 October, the summary budget report shared with Parliament on the day lacked several details that had been included in previous years.
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Mon 4 NovParliament's National Budget Review Committee held a meeting.Monday, 4 November 2024only Maldives RepublicParliament's National Budget Review Committee holds a meeting on Monday, 4 November 2024.
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Thu 7 NovAbdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom spoke at a PNF rally.Thursdayonly Maldives RepublicnewestSpeaking at a PNF rally held on Thursday, Yameen said details were not included in the budget presented to parliament because administration officials either did not know how to structure a budget or because they were being fraudulent.
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Who said what
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All the MDP members, all the opposition members are saying that there is no detail of this [budget]. And a printed [detailed hardcopy] budget has not been sent to parliament. No details have been provided,
On the day the budget was first presented, I met the Ministry of Finance contingent. They showed it to me in print. I will get it very soon, within two or three days, some said. Those two or three days have passed,
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MVR 56.6 billionNational Budget for 2025Maldives RepublicA week after the Mohamed Muizzu administration presented the MVR 56.6 billion National Budget for 2025, the administration continues to withhold details of plans and projects across the country.
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