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Gil said that both inequalities and people in vulnerable situations have increased in recent years.

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Havana, Dec 25 (RHC) Cuban authorities maintain that attention to inequalities and people in vulnerable situations will be one of the objectives prioritized by the government in 2023.

Deputy Prime Minister and head of Economy, Alejandro Gil said that currently more than a thousand communities and about 20 thousand families receive some kind of protection, and work is being done particularly with young people without labor or educational ties, for which there is a strategy.

During the 10th ordinary period of sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) in its ninth legislature, the minister explained that both inequalities and people in conditions of vulnerability have increased in recent years.

"That is why the Caribbean nation established this issue as a priority matter which is followed up at the highest level and is contemplated within the local development strategies," he said.

The budget approved by Parliament for the year 2023 also supports these projects, as it prioritizes social spending, to which 69 percent of the budget is dedicated.

For her part, the head of the Ministry of Finance and Prices, Meisi Bolaños, told the deputies that these expenditures guarantee the operation of schools and hospitals, programs for the vulnerable, housing subsidies, the basic food basket, subsidies for basic services and the payment of pensioners.

Meanwhile, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, insisted on the need for attention to communities and citizens in vulnerable situations to move definitively from subsidies for products to subsidies for people.

The president emphasized that the improvement of society requires starting a real transformation, based on the application of a non-assistance approach. (Source: PL)