Miqati’s New Govt. Priorities ‘Access to Medicine, Fuel, Electricity’
Behind closed doors, Prime Minister–designate Najib Miqati has asserted that if he is able to form a government, “its priorities, in the period until the parliamentary elections, will be to ensure the access of the Lebanese to medicine, fuel and electricity."
Members of his team told al-Akhbar newspaper, in remarks published Tuesday, that Miqati “is willing to suggest the idea of using the $900 million that Lebanon will receive from the International Monetary Fund to build two power plants in Deir Amar and al-Zahrani, which would cover Lebanon’s entire need for electricity.”
Sources added that Miqati is counting on the promised international momentum, in order to ensure the implementation of the Egyptian gas import pact, “which will lower the electricity bills and ensure the continuation of (electricity) production.”
28 July 2021, 09:06
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Better than using that money to distribute $70 cards a few months before elections. Electricity run on natural gas makes more sense and would ease a lot more problems than a $70 card prone to politicians wanting to sent them to their supporters in exchange for wink wink, their votes.
28 July 2021, 11:28
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though there is the necessity of investments in sustainable and green energy sources, rather than building old-fashioned power plants that will be already obsolete from their beginning... what more, who will build them and, above all, manage and run them afterwards? the same incompetent people who is now in charge of the electricity public network? EDL have to be disbanded, all its management should go through an administrative inquiry, have their assets confiscated in order to compensate the damage their company caused to the citizens, and such money used to co-finance the new plants. The new electricity network has to be contracted out to competent and experienced foreign groups, like Siemens who had already offered - remaining unheard - to restore the lebanese electricity sector
