Friday 21 December, the second last Cabinet meeting of the year, because the last one is scheduled for 28 December to approve the so-called the “thousand postponements decree”. At the end of each year, a survey is done to identify all of the provisions that have not been finalised during the year, so that, by passing a final legislative decree, the finalisation can be further postponed, thus permitting us to do next year, that which we were unable to do this year.
In the CIPE, we decided on two basic issues. A range of public works to be performed using all the remaining available funds. It is important to let everyone know that, for the first time ever, the Ministry for Infrastructure will not have a single cent left over, meaning that it has spent all of its funds for the envisaged works. There are no residual unused funds lying around, nor are there any stalled, half-completed works, in other words, we of the “thousand postponements decree” will not have to postpone the works that should have been carried out this year, because the works for which the money was allocated have all been commenced.
It is very satisfying to know that the last 200 million, more or less, have been allocated through the CIPE, to a whole range of important interventions, above all to complete those interventions that were already underway but required additional resources.

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