Africa-Press – Mauritius. It was Maneesh Gobin who spoke after Arvin Boolell.
To respond to the latter, he made numerous allusions to the position of leader of the opposition that Boolell has just taken over, while emphasizing that he is the fourth leader.“An unstable opposition facing a stable government.” And to take up the “flowering words” used by the latter by turning them against the opposition whose arguments, he will say, are disjointed and just confetti.
Maneesh Gobin was very jovial yesterday, a little too jovial even for a speech on the Budget.
It was only after 10 minutes of laughter that the minister got to the heart of the matter but by spouting rather surprising arguments such as the government supported the productive sectors; 35,600 new jobs were created, but without saying whether they were for Mauritians or foreigners; the quality of work has also been improved; inflation is falling due to rising freight costs and disruption in the distribution chain; and that private investment is increasing, debts and deficits are decreasing while foreign currency reserves are comfortable.
He is right, however, when he says that the construction sector drives growth with a rate of 37%, followed by tourism and agriculture.
And that infrastructural development is unheard of, as is the price of Rs 190 for household gas.
He also rightly recalls that it was Labor who abolished subsidies for SC and HSC exam fees.
But he is not entirely on the side of the truth when he condemns the opposition for saying that the pension hike will ruin the economy.
And although he acknowledged that it was the same Labor who introduced free education, “it was us who completed the process by making tertiary and pre-primary levels free” .
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