Protesters Rally Outside Baabda Palace as Govt. Prepares to Meet
Several EDL contract workers and Lebanese University professors staged sit-ins on Thursday near the Presidential Palace in Baabda, as the government readies to convene under the chairmanship of President Michel Aoun to discuss the controversial file of electricity.
EDL contracts workers gathered early in the morning reiterating their long-time demand to become full time employees.
LU lecturers on the other hand closed the road near the palace, demanding that they be given their full “wage scale” rights.
The protests came as the government prepares to decide on the thorny file of electricity crisis, and whether it should be renting new power generation vessels or building its own power plants.
The government is also expected to decide on whether to renew contracts for Karadeniz Turkish firm, which owns two power vessels currently providing Lebanon with electricity.
Lebanon’s government should in April notify Karadeniz if it plans to renew the contract that expires at the end of September 2018.
Source: Naharnet
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