Tunis/Tunisia — The government is currently working to readjust the state budget for 2020 and implement an economic recovery plan, Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh, said Wednesday evening.
Presenting his greetings for Aid El Fitr in a televised speech on Watania 1, Fakhfakh specified that the budget readjustment in question will be presented to parliament before the end of June.
Fakhfakh also revealed the priorities of the economic recovery plan being developed by his government, stating that the seven priorities in question are the resolution of outstanding problems hampering major projects and the return to normal activity in the mining basin and oil fields, the safeguarding of jobs, the fight against precarious employment, the revival of the economic sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the preservation of the economic fabric, particularly SMEs, the fight against corruption and impunity and, finally, the consolidation of national sovereignty and security.
With regard to the five-year strategic plan drawn up by his Government for the 2021-2025 period, Elyes Fakhfakh has pledged to implement this plan and to submit it within a period not exceeding the beginning of 2021.
Fakhfakh has, on the other hand, indicated that great battles await his government after that of COVID-19.
