The Minister of Planning in the National Unity Government, Fakher Boufarna, responded to the statements of the Chairman of the of Directors Board of National Oil Corporation, « that the budget that was disbursed to the Corporation from the National Unity Government is the lowest since 2013, stressing that the government allocated to the Corporation last year a budget that exceeds four times what was allocated her during the year 2020. »

Boufarna said that the National Oil Corporation obtained in 2021 a budget of 2 billion dinars as development expenses under Chapter Three, in contrast to only 500 million dinars that was disbursed to it in 2020, adding that the Corporation also obtained an additional amount of 180 million dinars from an exceptional budget disbursed previously in 2021.

The Chairman of the directors board of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, had made statements on Thursday evening in which he confirmed that the corporation had not obtained the required budgets from the National Unity Government, despite the fact that the oil revenues transferred to the government in 2021 were the highest in years and amounted to 26 billion dollars. He emphasized that the budget received by the institution last year was the lowest since 2013.