On Tuesday, the national unity government held a debate dedicated to revealing government spending, which amounted to 86 billion dinars, including 17 billion for projects to restore life.
The debate, which was attended by the Prime Minister, accompanied by a number of ministers and officials of agencies and institutions, stated that they had allocated 2.7 billion dinars for electricity, 3 billion for the administrative centers authority, and 2.45 billion for the housing projects authority.
For his part, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbaiba confirmed that his government’s budget is the lowest in years, indicating that they wanted to reveal the expenditure figures after they were provoked by the media’s complaints and accusation of concealing the truth.
Dbaiba added that the decision to increase salaries came to compensate people for the collapse of the exchange rate, and not for the purpose of electoral propaganda, adding that he would personally follow up on electricity projects whose problems turned out to be greater than the officials imagined, he said.
Dbaiba explained that they did not achieve much in the implementation of development projects, but they are confident because they have transferred the expenses of each project account in full.
He also revealed that they support the administrative centers authority with $3 billion because it is the most organized apparatus, not because Dbaiba was in it or that its officials are friends with him.
As for the Minister of Finance, Khalid Al-Mabrouk, who appeared in this seminar after he disappeared for days, he said that they transfer the salaries of the “General Command” to Benghazi every 3 months and are still waiting for them to provide the data of their associates.
In the same context, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Adel Jumaa said that the announced grants for university students are still under coordination, and are not registered in the budget, but rather are disbursed by telecommunications companies.
It is worth noting that the House of Representatives refused to vote on approving the budget submitted by the government more than once, and only allowed it to spend 1/12 of the previous year’s budget as stipulated by the budget law in the Libyan state.
