MDP: 2025 budget proposes 8,782 additional hires

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The 2025 state budget submitted by the incumbent People’s National Congress (PNC) administration proposes hiring an additional 8,782 employees next year, says Ibrahim Ameer, a top politician from the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), estimating that the additional hires will result in a 37 percent increase in payroll costs compared to 2023 – the last year of the MDP