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SDP calls for urgent sessions at all levels because of price hikes

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, February 2 (FENA) - The Social Democratic Party of BiH (SDP BiH) called for urgent government and parliamentary sessions at all levels because of the price increases caused by the implementation of the excise law set.

The SDP said in the statement that for months they had been pointing out to the deleterious consequences of adopting the excise taxes, “because the direct consequence of fuel price growth would be chain-reaction price hikes, which will exacerbate the already bad social image of our country and additionally undermine the standard of living of the population.”

They urged the governments at all levels to urgently convene sessions with just one item of the agenda: “the consequences of price increases and measures to mitigate and reverse the effects of price increases”.

Given that the complete process of the citizens' impoverishment in the law-making process, the statement adds, had five persistent parliamentary sessions, the SDP calls for the convening of extraordinary sessions of state and entity parliaments in order to analyze the effects of price increases on the standard of living of citizens and to adopt concrete measures to mitigate the effects of price increases, especially in the poorest categories of the population, such as the unemployed and pensioners with minimal pensions.

“We expect from the inspection bodies that in the period ahead they use their active role to protect the citizens through the legal instruments of monitoring and price control that they have at their disposal, and regularly inform the public on their activities. We call upon the competent prosecution to investigate as soon as possible and determine whether the introduction of additional excise taxes has the elements of a criminal offense, given that today it is more than clear that this was a conscious deception, lie and misuse of the position,” reads the statement from the Public Relations and Marketing Department of the SDP BiH.

(FENA)
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