Africa-Press – Cape verde. The prime minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, assured that the crisis cabinet will present, this week, a set of measures to mitigate the increase in the price of essential products .
“The Government will adopt a set of measures that will be announced this week, to reduce the impact of prices (…)”, said the head of Government, who was speaking to the press, in Achada Igreja, São Salvador do Mundo, at the end of the meeting. your five-day visit to the North Santiago region.
As he recalled, prices are being increased from the outside to the inside, and, according to him, this increase will affect the Cape Verdean economy and the prices of products sold in the country.
Correia e Silva guaranteed that the Government that leads “will do everything” to avoid the lack of products in the national market. Hence, according to the Chief Executive, these measures, to be announced this week, aim to make this increase have “the least possible impact” on families and companies.
“If, on the one hand, the covid-19 pandemic caused an increase in prices at an international level, which just for transport increased by about four times, now, because of the war, this same price has increased even more. three times, that is, if it was two, it became six”, he explained.
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