LH submission on mid-year budget rectification

This morning, La'o Hamutuk gave testimony to Parliament Committee C on the proposed budget rectification, which we followed up with a written submission covering the following topics:

• Timor-Leste is getting closer to the “Resource Curse"
• Unsustainable, illegal spending from the Petroleum Fund
• Timor-Leste should only have one budget cycle each year
• Package of Decentralized Development (PDD) is a little better than Pakote Referendum
• Waiting for the Strategic Development Plan
• Spending double on electricity
• Increasing imports and resale of rice 

Click here for more information and analysis on the budget rectification, with links to documents and other submissions.