The association stressed that “the annual budget is one of the basic rules in public finance, and means that the financial appropriations allocated for the expenditures of the fiscal year are spent within that year, and may not be carried over, divided, or transferred to a subsequent year except in accordance with an express exceptional law. Accordingly, the installment of the retroactive effect over twelve months constitutes a legal and constitutional violation that lacks any legislative basis.”
She considered that “what the Ministry of Finance has done is not limited to violating the law and the will of the House of Representatives, but also constitutes a clear circumvention of the Council of Ministers’ decision issued on February 16, 2026, according to which the government committed to completing the correction of salaries and pensions as of the beginning of 2027, so that they amount to about thirty times, that is, approximately fifty percent of their actual value before the crisis. This approach would empty the current increases of their content, and undermine confidence in the commitments.” The state raises legitimate concerns about reversing the implementation of the final phase of the salary and pension correction plan.”
The association affirmed that it “fully supports the statement of the Public Sector Associations (military and civilians), and adopts all the legal and factual reasons contained therein,” considering that “unity of position among all components of the public sector is the best way to defend the rights guaranteed by the law.”
