The Budget Commission approved a new opinion on the additional loan requested by the government

The Congressional Budget Committee approved by a majority vote the government’s opinion on a bill providing for an additional loan of more than 8,232 million sols for emergency response before Coastal El Niño phenomenon and economic recovery.

Economy Minister Alex Contreras attended the debate to determine the executive’s position on the request. He indicated that this amount would be used to finance higher spending as part of the recovery of the economy after the passage of Cyclone Yacu and the prevention of the El Niño phenomenon.

The proposal was approved for budget committee after intense debate and after overcoming and agreeing on a number of comments. The head of the MEF highlighted the initiative to manage the money for emergency relief across the country.

“The economy continues to recover, as well as to deal with the emergency, because there were complicated rains in Piura and Chiclayo. The total additional loan is $8,238 million, of which $3,500 million will go towards what we call a contingency reserve to fund the emergency,” he said as he left Congress.

On the other hand, Contreras explained how the money would be distributed if the regulation was approved by the plenary session of Congress.

“There are appropriations that will go to the national government, another one to regional and local authorities. As with any budget, there are decentralized interventions, but the goal is clear, we want to keep pushing for reactivation,” he said.

Public investment rose 15.8% in the first quarter

The head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), Alex Alonso Contreras, announced at the end of March that in the first quarter of 2023, public investment reached a record performance compared to the same periods of previous years, reaching an accumulated amount of S / 7,018 million, representing an annual increase of 15.8%.

This cumulative level of execution represents an 11.8% advance over the Modified Institutional Budget (PIM) for this year.

In his presentation during the broadcast of the MEF En Vivo digital space, Minister Contreras noted that this amount is a record, the highest level of execution, well above the average for the past five years and well above the pre-pandemic level. Almost twice as much as in the pre-pandemic period.

On a monthly basis, the execution of public investments by the national government rose by 55.0% in March, outpacing growth; while regional government execution increased by 12.2% and local government investment decreased by 27.4%.

minister Alex Alonso Contreras explained that the result achieved in the execution of public investments in the first quarter was due to the measures taken by the Government, which allowed maintaining the level of investments during the period of administration.