Struggle: "Government resigns from its responsibility to the private sector"

“Overall, the budget speech reflects a resignation by the government of its responsibility to the private sector! In this sense, for Lalit, it is a non-budget. First, there is no clear plan for basic food security. This is even as the price of all food items increases due to imports. Instead, the budget speech encourages the development of sugarcane and tea plantations! No measures are planned to force the owners of establishments to reconvert to food production. Lalit maintains that such a reconversion would make it possible to begin to tackle the underlying problem.

In the arguments presented during the budget speech, food production is in no way linked to the issue of balance of payments, nor to that of job creation for Mauritian workers. Here again, the Minister of Finance insists on the new facility allowing foreign workers to come.

Therefore, we conclude that for more than 20 years, successive employers and governments have been chasing workers from the fields, and now, 20 years later, zot vinn plore ki “morisien pa oule travay laterâ€! "What a lack of vision on the part of this bourgeoisie, this oligarchy and their successive governments!

Also on the fishing side, the budget speech still proposes relatively modest measures. No announcement is made regarding the creation of a fishing industry comparable to that of the Seychelles, for example. The PTr-MMM-ND-RA government still cannot bring itself to force big capital to share their investments. Why doesn't the government force hoteliers to invest in fishing? Do they fear these bosses as much as the sugar oligarchy? Or are they the same capitals? The most serious problem, in our opinion, concerns energy. In the midst of a global energy crisis – which will not be resolved any time soon – nothing seems to allow the CEB to produce more renewable energy itself.

On the contrary, it is the private sector that is called upon! The same goes for the production sector in general. Sanse koze prodiksion “manufacturing”, without however specifying its link with the economy. For example, if the capital of established institutions were redirected towards the production of basic foodstuffs, this would imply the establishment of a "manufacturing" industry for the conservation and processing of these products. Consequently, this lack of food and energy sovereignty generates a dependence which seriously threatens our geopolitical sovereignty.

Navin Ramgoolam once again included Rs 10 billion in the budget, a sum described as “blood money” which in reality amounts to ceding the