Political analysis .. The Minister of Finance’s invocation of the IMF’s conditions is considered insult to the people’s sentiments
Political analysis .. The Minister of Finance’s invocation of the IMF’s conditions is considered insult to the people’s sentiments
Tuesday 9 March 2021 | 09:34 am
Political analyst Hazem Al-Bawi considered, on Tuesday, the Minister of Finance, Ali Abdul Amir Allawi, who invoked the conditions of the International Monetary Fund in the austerity imposed on the people, an outrage of the dignity of Iraqis and a persistence in exposing them to more unfair pressures .
Al-Bawi said, “The minister has forgotten or forgotten that the Al-Abadi government has sought to infiltrate Iraq in 2014 under pain of the unfair conditions of the International Monetary Fund and remove the hand from the sectors of health, education and the ration card, contrary to the constitution .”
He added that “Al-Abadi’s government was the first to carry out unjustified imposed austerity, deduct the salaries of employees and raise the fees for communications to citizens, which caused a state of boil and great popular anger that Iraq is under its weight until now .”
Al-Bawi stressed the need for political and economic decision-makers to learn from that bitter experience and not to risk their credibility in front of the people who know well that the budget has been calculated at $ 43 per barrel of oil, while the price of Iraqi oil is sold today at $ 53 in OPEC and may reach higher than that, which negates the need. Unjustified austerity.
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