FOLLOWING “…a cry from the people’s heart…”, the Ivory Coast Government of Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has confirmed that it is halving the salaries of its ministers in order to pay for a reduction in fuel.
Diesel prices were increased on 7th July by 44% while petrol prices increased by 29%.In addition, the running costs and investments in his Government’s departments are to be cut to cope with the extra expenditure attributed to rising global oil prices and overseas trips would be cut to a “bare minimum”.
Banging pots and pans during March and April Abidjan housewives took to the streets while youths built burning tyres as barricades to close major roads. At least one man died in the demonstrations and 10 were injured at this time when security forces were forced to disperse the predominantly female demonstrators.
At that time, after a second day of violent protests, the Ivory Coast President, Laurent Ggabgo, cut taxes on basic household products adding that such increases were not only confined to Ivory Coast but were a world wide problem.
In this Presidential Republic the President of Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is both the head of the government and head of state in a multi-party system. All executive power is exercised by the Government of Ivory Coast, whilst Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the Parliament.
(Update based on BBC News 02:07 GMT, Tuesday, 22 July 200803:07UK)
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