Tehran plans 17% rise in spending

[José]

À l'approche des élections, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad va augmenter les dépenses publiques de 17%. Le populisme et la "générosité" avec l'argent des autres ne connaissent pas de frontières religieuses, géographiques, culturelles ou philosophiques.

Tehran plans 17% rise in spending

By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran

Published: January 8 2008 02:00 | Last updated: January 8 2008 02:00

Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad on Monday proposed a 17 per cent spending increase in Iran’s annual budget in a move seen as an attempt to bolster his government’s populist policies ahead of presidential elections in 2009.

The president presented the budget to Iran’s parliament in a new format that will give authority and flexibility to ministers and governor generals in 30 provinces to decide how to spend their share of the 274,500bn rials ($292bn, €199bn, £148bn) budget. The changes made it more difficult to make a like-for-like comparison with the current year's spending.

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[Chitah]

Bush a fait pire que ça, donc ce que fait Ahmadinedjad n'est pas très grave. Il fait ce qu'il peut avec la pression quotidienne de l'axe américano-sioniste.