'Let them fire me or shoot me': Mansouri stresses won't fund state without law
Acting Central Bank Governor Wassim Mansouri has emphasized that “the decision of halting the funding of the state’s needs is final and irreversible, no matter how much pressures escalates on him from now until the end of the month,” sources close to him said.
“Let them fire me or shoot me with a bullet. Only then they would get rid of me and of my firm decision that does not accept bargaining,” the sources quoted Mansouri as saying, in remarks published Tuesday in al-Joumhouria newspaper.
According to the sources, Mansouri considers that he is entrusted with the funds of the depositors, which “do not belong to him or to the premier.”
“That’s why it is no longer permissible to squander them,” the sources quoted Mansouri as saying.
“Those who want to spend from them under the slogan of necessity must obtain a legal cover that guarantees that what’s spent would be recovered within a short time, or else search for someone other than me,” Mansouri added, according to the sources.
Source: Naharnet
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