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MP warns Iranian govt: Saving $20b in six months is ‘illegal’
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – MP Qolamreza Mesbahi-Moqaddam of the Majlis Economic Committee has said that the government’s plan to save $20 billion from the subsidy reform plan in six months is “illegal”.
The administration’s announcement that it will go ahead with the implementation of the plan in the second half of the Iranian calendar year, which necessitates saving $20 billion just within 6 months, is clearly contrary to the law, Mesbahi-Moqaddam noted.
The second half of the Iranian year starts on 21st of September.
Prior to the approval of the subsidy reform plan by the parliament, President Ahmadinejad was very persistent that the plan is implemented very quickly, Mesbahi-Moqaddam told the Mehr News Agency.
Upon the president’s persistence for an immediate approval of the plan, lawmakers thought that the administration had prepared the necessary grounds for implementation of the plan and that the president would press ahead with the plan as soon as possible, the lawmaker added.
“The president’s remarks and the government’s approach today are different and indicative that the administration is yet to pave the necessary ground for the implementation of the law,” the MP noted.
Majlis has authorized the government to save $20 billion from subsidy cuts within one year. Based on the law, the administration should have started implementing the plan in Ordibehesht, the second month of the Persian calendar year which began on April 21, but for various reasons it has repeatedly delayed the plant.
Initially, Ahmadinejad’s administration asked Majlis to allow it to raise $40 billion from subsidy cuts in one year.
The administration’s announcement that it will go ahead with the implementation of the plan in the second half of the Iranian calendar year, which necessitates saving $20 billion just within 6 months, is clearly contrary to the law, Mesbahi-Moqaddam noted.
The second half of the Iranian year starts on 21st of September.
Prior to the approval of the subsidy reform plan by the parliament, President Ahmadinejad was very persistent that the plan is implemented very quickly, Mesbahi-Moqaddam told the Mehr News Agency.
Upon the president’s persistence for an immediate approval of the plan, lawmakers thought that the administration had prepared the necessary grounds for implementation of the plan and that the president would press ahead with the plan as soon as possible, the lawmaker added.
“The president’s remarks and the government’s approach today are different and indicative that the administration is yet to pave the necessary ground for the implementation of the law,” the MP noted.
Majlis has authorized the government to save $20 billion from subsidy cuts within one year. Based on the law, the administration should have started implementing the plan in Ordibehesht, the second month of the Persian calendar year which began on April 21, but for various reasons it has repeatedly delayed the plant.
Initially, Ahmadinejad’s administration asked Majlis to allow it to raise $40 billion from subsidy cuts in one year.
