The Court of Auditors postpones the publication of its report

The Court of Auditors will publish the Report on the execution of finance laws (Relf) 2023 on December 31. This document is eagerly awaited, both by national opinion and by Senegal's international partners. This is supposed to certify the conclusions of an audit by the General Inspectorate of Finance (Igf), commissioned by the new regime, reporting a makeup of public accounts in 2023, under the Presidency of Macky Sall.

The Prime Minister spilled the beans during a press conference on Thursday September 26.

According to Le Quotidien, the publication of the long-awaited report was initially scheduled for Tuesday, December 24. The newspaper reports that it was postponed at the request of the government.

Reason given, according to the same source: the Prime Minister's general policy declaration, scheduled for next Friday. This is to prevent the conclusions of the Court of Auditors from “polluting” the atmosphere, according to the “explanations” collected by the title of the Avenir communication group.

“The government had the scoop on the contents of the document that an entire country is impatient to read because of the weight of the Prime Minister's accusations,” notes Le Quotidien.

Ousmane Sonko had in fact declared that the Macky Sall regime had, for example, announced, for 2023, a budget deficit of 5.5% of GDP and a public debt of 65.9% of GDP while the audit of the 'Igf recorded, respectively, 10.4% and 76.3%.

These announcements caused the downgrading of Senegal's rating (Ba3 to B1) by Moody's and the freezing of the IMF program in Senegal.

REWMI