Staff report: CAIRO, June 27, 2018 - Prime Minister Dr Moustafa Madbouli emphasised Wednesday that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's directives to the government are clear in stressing that the Egyptian citizen be enabled to see positive effects of the economic reforms and witness swift improvement in a number of key files, including in the foremost urban cleanliness, traffic, continuous police presence, the improvement of services offered at hospitals and the availability of various goods at appropriate prices. The presidential directives to the ministers in charge of these files were to see to it that the citizen can feel swift and quality improvement in all such files, Prime Minister Madbouli told the weekly session of the cabinet Wednesday. Wednesday's session featured a review of a number of files and service and developmental issues of concern to citizens. In the course of the review, Prime Minister Madbouli expressed thanks to citizens for having shouldered the consequences of economic reform. Stressing that Egypt is a state of institutions, Dr Madbouli said that the present government would emphasise in the programme it will submit to the parliament that it would pursue the action plans and the programmes that had been started by the Sherif Ismail government. During Wednesday's session, the cabinet discussed the framework for the programme to be presented to the parliament for consideration. The highlights of the programme would include abidance by constitutional obligations and implementing the presidential directives that include in the foremost protecting national security, building the Egyptian citizen, achieving economic development, lifting the efficiency of the government machinery and improving the living conditions of citizens. The programme would also present the government's planned action for the realisation of the goals of sustainable development, fulfilling the targets of the four-year plan 2022 and fulfilling pressing demands especially insofar as addressing the consequences of the reform programme, pushing forward economic growth and emphasis on employment and social justice.
