CAIRO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Egypt's budget deficit in the year to end-June 2013 is expected to widen to 200 billion Egyptian pounds ($31.5 billion), from a 166.7 billion pound deficit in 2011/12, the state news agency quoted Planning Minister Ashraf al-Araby as saying on Monday.
Egypt's budget, released in July, had forecast a 2012/13 deficit of 135 billion pounds.
($1 = 6.356 Egyptian pounds)
(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh, writing by Patrick Werr; Editing by John Stonestreet)
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