The economist and researcher warns that the economic pressure on the Mozambican state's treasury to pay salaries to civil servants will continue until the end of the year, despite assurances that salaries are being paid, with some unusual delays.

According to economist and researcher at the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), Gabriel Manquele, the downward revision in the implementation of the Single Wage Table (TSU) has only exposed the chaos in the public accounts, but the difficulties in the Mozambican state treasury are long-standing.

"When the government announced that it would be revising the Single Wage Scale, the first idea that came to mind was that the revision would be in the context of the IMF's visit to the country (...), but then it became clear that the public accounts are actually under pressure," said Manquele, quoted by VOA, explaining that the state payroll was becoming unsustainable for the treasury, "in a context of low revenue collection".

The economist goes on to say that the situation has forced the government to repeatedly issue domestic debt and sacrifice public investment.

For the source, against the talk of payment guarantees, "there is now uncertainty about payments, and it is a fact that the costs of the TSU are enormous and will most likely extend beyond the mandate that ends in 2024".

To this end, the economist emphasized that "if there had been money to pay salaries as we were, this difficult decision to revise the TSU would not have been taken", harming parliamentarians and public officials.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance, through its spokesperson, Alfredo Mutombene, acknowledged unusual delays in the payment of civil service salaries, but assured that the Mozambican state has been paying salaries every month.