President-elect Expected To Remedy National Economy :Rafsanjani

Tehran, June 29, IRNA -- Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Thursday the President-elect Hassan Rohani is expected to remedy national economy. Rafsanjani said after a meeting with President-elect Hassan Rohani that the new president has adopted a plan to remove the bottlenecks, administer the state affairs properly and bring the national economy on the right track. He expressed the hope that Rohaniˈs planning will bear fruit at the earliest. President-elect Hassan Rohani said for his part that he exchanged views with the Chairman of the Expediency Council. Rafsanjani said that he welcomed consultations with the new president on different issues. Rohani said in his election campaign that he would encourage national industries to take helm of economy and bring about economic stability. He said that the government must help boost domestic products to remedy unemployment. He said that the outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruined national economy by refusal to pay the share of industries from the revenues coming from removal of subsidies. Ahmadinejadˈs refusal to pay share of the industries from the revenues envisaged by the plan to remove the subsidies led to closure of industrial units across the country./end