Government payroll up by RD$1.7bn

[NewsWhore]

The government has added RD$1.669 billion to this year's budget to cover payroll. This is 4.2% higher than approved by Congress. With this, the authorities have given in to political temptations in the use of the national budget, in breach of their promise to control expenditure, according to a report by Clave weekly newspaper. In the first months of his administration, President Leonel Fernandez promised to maintain a policy of austerity and said he would reduce the payroll by 20%. In 2004, the Central Bank reported that the government had managed to reduce its workforce by 39,316 jobs.

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