The ball of the 2026 November session of parliament has been officially set rolling after the kickoff on November 10, 2026. The fisrt Chairmen’s Conference of the Assembly, chaired by House Speaker Right Honourable Théodore Datouo, has declared the 2025 Settlement Bill admissible for parliamentary scrutiny.
Submitted in accordance with the 2018 fiscal regime law, the text outlines the government’s financial and budgetary execution of the 2025 Finance Law, which was previously amended by Ordinance No. 2025/001 on July 11, 2025.
Initially balanced at CFAF 7,250.8 billion, the 2025 State budget was revised upward via the supplementary ordinance to CFAF 7,735.9 billion. This total envelope allocated CFAF 7,669 billion to the General Budget and CFAF 66.9 billion to Special Appropriation Accounts – SAAs to cover state operations across the fiscal year.
Data from the General Budget execution reveals that revenue, excluding financing and cash-flow operations, reached CFAF 5,174.8 billion out of a projected CFAF 5,350.8 billion, marking a 96.7% realization rate. Conversely, public expenditure exceeded its CFAF 5,646.3 billion target to hit CFAF 5,729.7 billion, resulting in a 101.4% execution rate.
Consequently, Cameroon recorded a budget deficit of CFAF 535.2 billion, equivalent to 1.6% of GDP, widening significantly from the initial forecast of CFAF 309.9 billion, or 0.9% of GDP.
Financial authorities attributed this gap primarily to a 7.2% shortfall in domestic revenue alongside a 4.8% rise in overall spending.
Following its admission, the Minister of Finance Louis Paul Motaze will defend the bill before the National Assembly’s Committee on Finance and the Budget. Lawmakers are thus expected to examine the figures in detail to evaluate the government’s management of public finances throughout the 2025 exercise.
