The High Council of State rejected on Monday the 2024 budget approved by the House of Representatives (HoR). The rejection of the budget came in an extraordinary session held by the High Council of State in the presence of its president, Mohammed Takala,
The High Council of State said that the budget explicitly violates the Libyan constitution, in addition to violations in form and content.
According to a press statement made by the member of the High Council of State, Saad bin Sharada, 63 members rejected the budget out of 75 who attended the session. He said they considered that the budget's approval by the House of Representatives “violates the political agreement and the Constitutional Declaration, given that it was passed without consultation with the High Council of State.”
He considered that the budget approved by the HoR "adds to the political division in the country, given that it is dealing with two governments with two separate budgets."
The Head of the High Council of State, Mohammed Takala, addressed letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aqila Saleh, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir, a few days ago, denouncing the approval of the budget, as it did not meet the constitutional requirements.
The House of Representatives voted last Wednesday to approve the state budget for 2024, after adding 88 billion dinars to the budget approved last April, which is estimated at more than 90 billion dinars, bringing the total budget for this year to approximately 179 billion dinars.
