The CONGOLESE NEWS AGENCY announces the end of the September ordinary session of the National Assembly. According to this official agency, this plenary which was devoted to everything that has been done during the last three months, had four items on the agenda, namely, the report of the joint committee of ECOFIN over the finance law project, the adoption of the closed meeting after the hearing of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior and the Minister of National Defense.

According to ACP, recommendations on this subject were given by the elected representatives, the report of the PAJ Commission on AFDC / A and, finally, the closing speech of Chairwoman Jeannine Mabunda.

L'AVENIR which works on the closing of the September session within the Senate as well as the National Assembly mentions that AlexisThambwe Mwamba and Jeannine Mabunda accomplished their missions. According to daily newspaper of the Bas-Congo Avenue, this session has not departed from this parliamentary tradition.

The 2020 finance law which includes the national budget has indeed passed and its figure is 18,545,226,830.992 billion FCC is in balance in revenue and expenditure.

For L’AVENIR, during this session, the two chambers of Parliament examined and adopted the laws authorizing the ratification of the three loan or financing agreements and, the last on the development of agricultural value chains in six provinces. The text was sent to the competent standing committees for a detailed examination, the tabloid specifies.

LE POTENTIEL announces in summary that the National Assembly and the Senate are going on vacation after adopting the 2020 budget.


RADIO OKAPI, focuses on the closing this Sunday of the September parliamentary session, notes that the September parliamentary session ends this Sunday, December 15, in accordance with article 115 of the Constitution.

The National Assembly and the Senate are already on vacation after adopting the budget, but in different terms. Hence, the harmonization of views by a joint parity committee which already sits in a marathon before the official closing ceremony, RADIO OKAPI reports

CAS-INFO.CA also claims that the National Assembly closed its budgetary session after adopting the 2020 finance law. To believe it, the national deputies are going on parliamentary holidays. This, after the closing this Sunday December 15 of the ordinary session of September, CAS-INFO.CA points out.

During this session, the media reports, elected officials also reviewed the law on accountability as well as other matters. The first address of Félix Tshisekedi to the nation via the two chambers of parliament is also part of the actions undertaken during this ending session, the same media concludes.

Corneille Kinsala N’soki


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