Thee Workers’ Party firmly condemned the continuing indebtedness policy, after Tunisia acquired a $750 million loan (about 2,200 million dinars) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The party repeated in a press release the appeal to suspend the payment of the debt for at least during this year, summoning the national forces to combine efforts to discuss the indebtedness and force a severe treatment of the coronavirus pandemic fallout.
The party moreover pointed out that the new loan from the IMF and the bond issue published by the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) on the international financial market for the State, recently passed by the House of People’s Representatives (HPR), might bring the indebtedness to 80% of the gross domestic product (GDP).
The party, therefore, asked the national forces to shoulder their responsibilities and exercise more restraint on the government to end this critical skid endangering the economy and the country’s future.
Moreover, it reemphasised call to locate other sources to finance the State’s Budget and to combat the pandemic by forcing the foreign companies and enterprises to suspend the transfer of their profits for 2019, by building an exceptional tax on the enterprises and financial institutions, streamlining the imports and declaring war on monopoly and speculation.
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