A demonstration in Al-Kut calling for a review of some of the budget's provisions

Friday 02, April 2021 16:10
 
Al-Kut / NINA / Today afternoon, the city of Kut witnessed a demonstration in which dozens of citizens and from various social strata participated, to demand reconsideration of some paragraphs of the state's financial budget, which were voted by the House of Representatives.

A member of the Coordinating Committee for the demonstrations, Sajjad Salem al-Quraishi, told the correspondent of the Iraqi National News Agency / NINA / that: "The demonstrators in Kut chose the Worker Square in the city center to be the new protest platform for Wasit revolutionaries and a revolutionary mobilization in the Kut market, where the masses and the hard-working people."

He added: "We have witnessed a significant increase in the prices of basic foodstuffs after the approval of the state's general budget, which targeted many of its paragraphs of the poor social segments of earners, workers and small employees, which will negatively affect their living conditions, indicating that the most important demands of the demonstrators are to restore the exchange rate of the dollar against The dinar, along with improving the ration card items and keeping the parties away from drawing the country's economic policy, with the prosecution of high-ranking thieves, and the return of the stolen money to the public treasury.

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