For the third day in a row .. The People's Assembly continues to discuss the ministerial statement

Damascus-Sana

For the third day in a row, the People's Assembly, in its first session of the first ordinary session of the third legislative session, held under the chairmanship of Hammouda Sabbagh, Speaker of the Council, continued the discussion of the ministerial statement in the presence of the Prime Minister, Engineer Hussein Arnous, and a number of ministers.

In their interventions, a number of members of the Council called for combating the phenomenon of school dropouts, stopping the granting of building permits in agricultural lands, increasing support for farmers, and paying more attention to the youth segment, limiting trade in subsidized basic materials, and forming a committee to find sustainable solutions to forest fires that ensure accountability and impose deterrent measures against them and not just register Accidents against unknown and counting losses only.

Some members criticized the inclusion of an item in the ministerial statement represented by “setting up a vision to deal with the shadow economy from legal, administrative and financial aspects in order to integrate it into the economic cycle,” stressing that this economy is illegal and deprives the public treasury of important revenues and it should be combated and not dealt with, calling for a reformulation of the statement. In accordance with the proposed executive programs to solve the living and service issues.

A number of members questioned the reason behind some ministries not agreeing to resignations and annual leave without pay that their employees present and who find themselves forced to search for other work to improve their living conditions, calling for the preparation of a unified database of laws and legislations that need to be developed and to combat cement traffickers in the country. The black market, where the price per ton reaches 110 thousand pounds, and those responsible for its arrival from the public sector are held accountable to this market.

The members of the Council indicated the need to increase marketing centers for grains, provide fertilizer for Hasakah, activate the reconstruction program in it, raise the level of support for Deir Ezzor Governorate, and take measures to ensure the arrival of competent and honest people to local councils so as not to be resolved more than once a year, while others considered that providing medicine and food at prices A reduction is more important than the increase in salaries, in order to benefit the whole community, not just the employees.

A number of members questioned the reason for delaying the maintenance of the Banias refinery for many years and starting its maintenance now, stressing the need to develop solutions to crises before they occur, noting the need to re-study the work with the electronic card and find solutions to the gaps that emerged during the application.

The council members also called for strictly monitoring the implementation of the approved health protocol in schools in order to preserve the safety of students and their families.

The meeting was suspended until 12 noon tomorrow, Wednesday.