Parliament passes 2024/2025 National Budget

Budget-Debate-2024-2025 Feature

Parliament passes 2024/2025 National Budget

By Navitalai Naivalurua

Thursday 11/07/2024

Photo: Parliament of the Republic of Fiji

The 2024/2025 National Budget has been passed in parliament.

This means the Bill to appropriate a sum of $3.955 billion for the ordinary services of Government for the year ending 31st July 2025 has been approved.

39 MPs voted for the budget, 11 voted against while 2 abstained.

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