Bassil slams 'intentional power cuts' as 'crime against the people'
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Monday accused rival political parties of subjecting the people to “intentional power cuts” with the aim of “spiting” the FPM.
“Intentional power cuts are a crime that is being committed by the state against its people,” Bassil said in a video posted on social media.
“This crime passed through several stages, such as subsidizing electricity by the 1994 Hariri government, rejecting a tariff hike by several parties, blocking the electricity plan, specifically by not paying the Deir Amar plant contractor, parliament’s failure to approve the coastal gas pipeline and the failure to appoint a regulatory commission,” Bassil added.
“They have stopped purchasing fuel since October 17 (2019) and they have refused to end subsidization and hike the tariff… This would have spared people the hefty power bills” that are being paid to neighborhood generator providers, the FPM chief lamented.
“All of this is aimed at spiting us,” he decried.
He added: “They don’t have money to purchase fuel for power plants but they have money to buy fuel for power generators.”
“A crime is being committed against an entire people only to spite us… How can such officials build a state?” Bassil went on to say.
Source: Naharnet
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