Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said the passenger tariff for microbuses will rise from 2 percent to 6 percent.
At his meeting with newspaper editors on Wednesday, the prime minister said that tariff for 11 passenger microbuses operating within the city will be 7 percent and outside the city 4 percent.
He also said that the government is forming a company to create jobs for one million young people in all governorates.
“We also succeeded in applying the new system for the distribution of bread,” he said.
He said subsidies take a quarter of the budget, another goes to wages, the third to the debt service and the last goes to the rest of the services.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
