2025/2026 National Budget is a lazy budget from a lazy government – Ketan Lal

The 2025/2026 National Budget is not just a disappointment, it is not even a missed opportunity, but it is a lazy budget from a lazy government.

This was highlighted by Opposition MP, Ketan Lal while opposing the 2025/2026 National Budget in Parliament.

Lal says this budget does not just lack vision, but it also lacks basic effort.

He went on to ask where are the bold reforms, the leadership, and the urgency that the people were promised?

Lal further says that while this government is busy painting a glossy picture of progress, the reality outside the parliament walls is dark, painful, and growing harder to ignore.

He says families are feeling the pinch of the cost of living.

He adds that workers are overburdened, meth is destroying our communities, HIV cases have tripled in less than a year, and the Online Safety Commission is overwhelmed with reports of abuse, yet the digital space remains largely ungoverned.

Lal says a pound of butter now costs $15.93, and at this point, it practically becomes a luxury item.

Lal says Fijians are still waiting for the good change that was promised during the 2022 general elections by the coalition government, but all they have received are good speeches and not good outcomes.