The Syrian Ministry of Finance denied the validity of a statement attributed to Minister Mamoun Hamdan that the employees ’salaries could be sufficient.
And on the correctness of what is being circulated on social media on the authority of Hamdan, from “that the citizen is able to live from his salary if his matter is managed properly”, the media office in the Ministry of Finance explained to RT that “the Minister of Finance appeared on 05/13/2020 by calling My phone is on (my channel) Syrian and news to talk about the importance of the issuance of legislative decree No. 10 of 2020 and its executive implications and the date of its issuance and he never touched on salary talk ”(the decree requires exempting the imported raw materials necessary for industrial production from taxes and fees).
The office attached a link to Hamdan‘s hadith that does not mention the issue of salaries and wages.
And it was spread on social media that the phrase attributed to Hamdan, amid a situation of scarcity.
It is noteworthy that the salaries of employees in Syria are among the lowest in the region, especially with the decline in the value of the lira, and the unprecedented state of inflation in the country, which led to a situation in which the salary became less than the basic needs of life.
Source: RT
