Ministry of Finance: deficit in the budget of 2018 up to 3 trillion dinars

A source familiar with the Ministry of Finance, said on Saturday that the deficit in the budget of 2018, which reached the stages of its final schedule of up to 3 trillion dinars, indicating that the Prime Minister seeks measures to bridge the deficit.
The source said that “the deficit in the budget of 2018, which reached the stages of its final schedule, reached 3 trillion dinars,” noting that “Abadi is considering the option of deducting more salaries of employees to fill this deficit.”
He added that “the discussion with the parliamentary Finance Committee led to the cancellation of some paragraphs of the budget for energy projects and school buildings.”

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