{"id":216778,"date":"2025-12-15T22:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-assembly-approves-2026-plan-and-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:20:23","slug":"mozambique-assembly-approves-2026-plan-and-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-assembly-approves-2026-plan-and-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Assembly Approves 2026 Plan and Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Saturday approved the plan and budget (PESOE) for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The budget passed with 163 votes in favour, all from the ruling Frelimo Party. The 55 deputies present from the three opposition parliamentary groups &#8211; from the former rebel movement Renamo, from the Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) and from the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) &#8211; all voted against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The opposition parties had boycotted the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Saturday approved the plan and budget (PESOE) for 2026. The budget passed with 163 votes in favour, all from the ruling Frelimo Party. The 55 deputies present from the three opposition parliamentary groups &#8211; from the former rebel movement Renamo, from the Optimistic Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8326,7269,6080,4704,682,257,7586,254],"class_list":["post-216778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-assembly","tag-budget","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}