BEIRUT: Four Beirut MPs met Thursday to discuss residents' complaints about the intensive electricity rationing in the capital and called for an immediate solution.
“What is needed is a quick and immediate action to fix the malfunctions in Beirut and to provide the people with their right [of electricity]," MP Mohammad Qabbani said after the meeting at the Parliament. “We are representing people today, and thus it is our duty to raise the voice on their behalf asking the executive authority to fix this issue as soon as possible.”
Qabbani said Energy Minister Arthur Nazarian, whom he described “a good man,” seems to be “powerless” facing the electricity problems.
“I would like to ask him how he is able to sleep at night while the whole city he is representing suffers from darkness,” Qabbani said, addressing Nazarian, who is also a Beirut MP.
Qabbani said that while electricity problems were targeting all Lebanese, “complains from Beirut are the most bitter ... because the recent malfunctions have been fixed in all areas except for Beirut.”
Lebanon experienced two total blackouts in less than 24 hours this week, while Beirut has been suffering from unusual and harsh rationing for weeks, with electricity cuts increasing from three hours per day to 12.
Electricite Du Liban says that it needs parts that are only available at the company’s headquarters in Mar Mikhael to fix the malfunction.
The striking former contract workers blocking the facility have announced their readiness to allow the retraction of any tools from the building, and to physically contribute into the repairing if necessary. However, EDL’s administration has rejected such “partial access” to the facility, saying it is insulting to the "company’s dignity."
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