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Safadi rejects approved wage hike as lacking real funding resources


NNA - Finance Minister, Mohammad Safadi, explained Friday that he objected to the salary scale draft as approved by the Cabinet yesterday "because it did not include any real funding resource."



He also warned that this wage hike would increase public deficit.



He said that he raised a number of questions before the cabinet, which are still as yet unanswered.



"When the Parliament endorses the salary scale bill, the Finance Ministry will be bound to modify the figures of the state budget in order to secure the required credits to cover the civil servants' rights. This means that deficit will tower," he said.



"This is why I objected to the ratification of the salary scale in its formula Okayed by the Cabinet," he concluded.



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