The Minister of Planning in the National Unity Government, Fakher Boufarna, responded to the statements of the Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Oil Corporation, « that the budget that was disbursed to the Corporation from the Government of National Unity is the lowest since 2013, stressing that the government allocated to the Corporation last year a budget that exceeds four times what was allocated 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 in 2020, adding that the Corporation also obtained an additional amount of 180 million dinars from a previous exceptional budget disbursed in 2021. »