Thirty-three MPs approved the 2025-2026 national state budget during today's session.
Six MPs rejected the move, while only Parliament’s public utilities and environment affairs committee chairman MP Bader Al Tamimi was absent.
According to the draft, the total spending budget for both this year and the next will be BD8.916bn, divided into BD4.379bn this year and BD4.536bn the next.
The government is anticipating general revenues of around BD6.383bn – BD2.924bn this year and BD3.459bn the next.
Present during the weekly session was an eight-member ministerial team led by Finance and National Economy Minister Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.
The budget will be debated and voted on during an extraordinary Shura Council session on Thursday.
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