PLP 22/2025 | Outstanding payments | House of Representatives

The proposal loosens control over budget execution , opening the door to the indiscriminate use of outstanding payments as a way to "push" expenses from one fiscal year to another, compromising fiscal transparency. Furthermore, it reduces the incentive for efficient planning , favoring the artificial postponement of public spending and hindering the assessment of the government's real efforts to contain expenses.

Politically, the project benefits public managers who seek greater leeway to fulfill promises or release funds in election years , without the proper backing of timely budget execution, which weakens the fiscal framework and the credibility of public accounts .