Syed Hussein Al -Qassab
The Minister of Finance and National Economy, Sheikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, affirmed that a consensus on the principles and foundations on which the budget was built, indicated, indicating that this is the result of intensive work over months through meetings and consensus.
He noted that improving the standard of living of the citizen is the primary in setting any budget, indicating that during the agreement on the state’s general budget for the two financial years 2025-2026, the standard of living was placed as a priority with the efforts of all ministers.
This came during the discussion of the Shura Council of the State Budget Budget Bill for the two financial years 2025-2026. Where the Minister of Finance referred to the hard work of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy to deliver data to the legislative authority as soon as possible.
He pointed to the presence of large budgets in the budget, stressing the work of the executive and legislative authorities hand in hand to develop plans and programs that reduce these older women, while maintaining positive economic growth in the economy of the Kingdom of Bahrain, stressing that the government has maintained positive economic growth since the launch of the financial balance program since 2018.
The Minister of Finance explained that the positive economic growth indicates the balanced work of the economic policy of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the close cooperation between the executive and the legislative authority, in order to develop solutions that help reduce the older women and maintain positive economic growth, in addition to creating promising opportunities for citizens and the quality of government services, stressing the government’s commitment to the continuation of this work.
He stressed that the government was able to convert a preliminary deficit that was more than a billion dinars in 2018, to the last first surplus of three years «2022-2023-2024», where preliminary surpluses were achieved, explaining that there is still a great burden of public debt benefits, indicating that the way to achieve surpluses comes by setting the right solutions to increase revenues in a way that does not affect citizens, and participates in promoting positive economic growth.
Sheikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa pointed out that the government is interested in economic projects that improve the standard of living of citizens by creating promising opportunities, in addition to preserving the purchasing power of citizens and maintaining the protection of low -income people, and investing in the infrastructure status to support new graduates from universities, pointing to the presence of university graduates who create job opportunities for other graduates, through entrepreneurship and investment in entrepreneurs, which is from It means that the graduate is a source of creating jobs for his colleagues looking for work.
In evaluating priority projects, the Minister of Finance stated that it is evaluated with the number of job opportunities that it will provide to citizens, indicating that based on this standard, priority is given. As for the health sector, he said that the government is going according to the vision of His Majesty the King and the Crown Prince, the Prime Minister in caring for the health aspect, as it is an investment in the citizen and the preservation of the human forces of the Kingdom of Bahrain, as the citizen’s health is the utmost importance to the government, stressing that the health of citizens always gives a share of the state budget.
He referred to a project to treat the first patient with sickle cell anemia, indicating that this is a great achievement for the Kingdom of Bahrain worldwide, and was achieved by a competent Bahraini medical team, stressing that the government’s confidence is very large in Bahraini doctors. He explained that there are global teams from the countries of the world that came to the Kingdom of Bahrain, and witnessed this achievement, as it has previously witnessed the completion of the Bahrain team in the Korona pandemic, where many international institutions confirmed that the Kingdom of Bahrain has the best team.
