Jordan...to raise fuel prices 4 times in the coming months

Jordanian government spokesman, Faisal Shboul, announced that the cabinet is heading to raise fuel prices in the country in at least four stages during the coming months.

In an interview with Al-Mamlaka channel, Shboul confirmed the previous statements of Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya, in which he said, "The government is going to make as little as 4 hikes on fuel prices in the coming months."

He explained that the government will "raise the prices of gasoline, in both parts, at the beginning of each month by 35 fils per liter," explaining that "taxes did not rise, but that what rose was the price of oil derivatives only."

He pointed out that the government "did not reflect, last November, diesel prices on the local market, and froze the tax on oil derivatives in February, March and April."

He pointed out that "the government resorted to fixing prices for the mentioned three months after citizens recovered from the Corona virus, the start of the market recovery, the cold winter season, and the beginning of the month of Ramadan," explaining that "the government did not consider that oil would rise globally by 50% in the last crisis." ".

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