According to the auditors’ findings, in 2025, the volume of external grants allocated amounted to 98.5% of those planned in the budget, of which about 4.5 billion lei was spent. However, the audit revealed a low level of absorption “in some central state bodies”. The main reasons cited are: delays in the preparation of documentation, late implementation of planned activities, delayed procurement procedures and late approval of documents necessary for the disbursement of funds.
The audit revealed that the process of planning and realization of capital investments still suffers from systemic deficiencies. Approximately LE 2.2 billion was approved for 64 investment projects in 2025, but during the year, 23 projects were excluded and another 20 were included later. In addition, 11 new projects were included in the financing without fully completing the stages stipulated in the legal framework for the evaluation and selection of public capital investments. The audit shows that these situations reflect deficiencies in planning, insufficient institutional capacity and difficulties in managing investment projects that should have benefited from donor support among others.
It is also noted that, based on the audited sample of 11 projects financed from external sources, for which, despite the 1.5 billion lei approved in the budget proposals, a low level of spending was recorded – 102 million lei, or 6.3 per cent of the necessary amount. It is worth mentioning that for these projects, the payments for the commitments were made in line with the financial agreements from the unused balance of money, which amounted to approximately 6.4 million lei for 2025. Moreover, for some projects there is an unutilized balance, on which the interest on the credit loan continues to be paid annually.
In total, the state budget expenditures last year were executed at 98% of the planned ones. At the same time, the largest share in the total expenditures was still taken by the item “General actions” – 53.6 billion lei, or 58.2%. Transfers to other components of the state budget amounted to 23.2 billion lei – to local budgets, 20.2 billion lei – to the state social insurance budget and 7.3 billion lei – to the mandatory health insurance funds, the report said.
