# Anwar tables Budget 2023, the unity government’s first full-year spending plan

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 24 February 2023 Anwar, as finance minister, tabled Budget 2023 of RM388.1 billion, up from the October 2022 print, with RM289.1 billion operating and RM99 billion development including RM2 billion contingency. Later out-turn is a child.

## Context

He held Finance. Parliament must pass supply. BNM does not write the Budget. Neighbouring STR is a child transfer brand.

Oath 24 November is the parent office. MADANI 27 July is a later framework child.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia advises the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, chairs Cabinet, and is appointed under Articles 40 and 43 of the Federal Constitution. He does not write Bank Negara Malaysia policy rates, does not sit as every state menteri besar, and does not author a United States or China statute. A 1999–2018 prosecution or pardon cluster is not a 2023 subsidy. Allegation is not a completed personal conviction unless a court so held. A 2027 general election is not this page’s completed Fact. As of 27 August 2026 he remains prime minister.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Finance Malaysia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [fiscal-policy sustainability](/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability): a completed first unity Budget is a dated spending-and-transfer instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 24 February 2023 Budget 2023 tabling of RM388.1 billion, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later deficit coefficient from that Friday, or that every STR sen uniquely paid that day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Parliament passed supply. Treasury implements. BNM sets rates separately.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Anwar tables Budget 2023, the unity government’s first full-year spending plan, not a later speech about Anwar tables Budget 2023, the unity government’s first full-year spending plan.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Anwar tables Budget 2023, the unity government’s first full-year spending plan on 2023-02-24 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Finance Malaysia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Anwar tables Budget 2023, the unity government’s first full-year spending plan into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He tabled as finance minister. Parliament passed supply. Treasury implements. BNM sets rates separately. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anwar Ibrahim: https://factrail.ai/people/anwar-ibrahim

## Drivers

- Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability
- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-pm-anwar-unveil-budget-aimed-aiding-poor-2023-02-24/
- https://www.mof.gov.my/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/my-anwar-budget-2023