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.
12 April 2018, 17:01
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It warms my heart every time I see the EDL contract workers involved in demos and sit-ins. Most of these are Berri political appointees who only show up to their workplaces mornings, sign in, then go home or go somewhere. They come back at shift end and sign out. Or more likely never even bother to show up at all and have someone else do this exercise for them. So these events are the only places where they get to meet others like them, trade stories about the family and what a typical weekday look like.
