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Jun 21 , 2025.

The budget in Birr approved by the Council of Ministers for the Council of Constitutional Inquiry for the fiscal year 2025/26. This is one of the most glaring variances in the entire budget bill, as the Council requested over 1.6 billion Br, an amount 3,671.63pc larger than what has been approved.


PUBLISHED ON Jun 21,2025 [ VOL 26 , NO 1312]

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