March 14 Hints it Scored Victory in Electricity Bill
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The March 14-led opposition hinted on Thursday to have scored a victory against MP Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc after a meeting of joint parliamentary committees approved an electricity draft law with some amendments rejected by Aoun.
March 14 MP Jean Oghassabian told Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) that the committees approved the cabinet’s initial draft law as called for the opposition and not as Energy Minister Jebran Bassil and his father-in-law Aoun wanted.
MP Ammar Houri told al-Liwaa daily that parliament should adopt the draft law referred to it from the committees. “It is strange that we as an opposition are calling for the adoption of the decision of the cabinet while the pro-cabinet parties are evading it.”
The dispute is not with the government itself but with Bassil who is rejecting to have transparency in the $1.2 billion project proposed by him to generate 700 megawatts of electricity, he said.
Houri also accused Bassil of rejecting to form the Electricity Regulatory Authority and a board of directors for Electricite du Liban.
The two amendments introduced to the bill force Bassil to begin forming the ERA and EDL’s new board of directors as soon as parliament endorses the bill.
Opposition sources told As Safir daily that the approval of the cabinet’s decision by the parliamentary committees with the two amendments was an adoption of the majority of amendments that the March 14 lawmakers were seeking to introduce to the electricity bill.
22 September 2011, 07:48
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Originally this was M14 idea to bring electricity to Lebanon.. Aoun sabotaged the project and claimed it as his modifying it to give Bassil unlimited power over expenditures...
22 September 2011, 09:03
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Canaanite, hu???? Aoun was in exile until 2005. what did hariri sr. and clique achieve on the electricity front?? 12 years!!! Nothing, nada, zipp, zilch!! and u know why?
Because that was the only sector that was a black holewhen it cpmes to money, there was nothing to rob!! no commisssions to make!! hence the neglect.. Shame
22 September 2011, 10:08
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credit goes to people deeds not to words
so for 20 years some people talked byt after 60 billion ,we got nothing even electricity
so now we give this goverment 1 year if the problem of electricity is solved that is a deed and me and all the rest of the citizens will be greatfull forever as it will show us who talks and spend dozens of billions without achieving nada and the ones who work at a lesser costs
god bless lebanon and the lebanese
22 September 2011, 10:16
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credit goes to people deeds not to words
so for 20 years some people talked byt after 60 billion ,we got nothing even electricity
so now we give this goverment 1 year if the problem of electricity is solved that is a deed and me and all the rest of the citizens will be greatfull forever as it will show us who talks and spend dozens of billions without achieving nada and the ones who work at a lesser costs
god bless lebanon and the lebanese
22 September 2011, 11:39
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Guys, we live in the 21st century !!!!... This electricity draft was initiated by M14 more than once in the past few years but was reject by M8 who were the opposition back then.
Do you think Aouns' son-in-law cares about people's welfare ?? he only cares about scoring a political victory to gain votes at any cost..
22 September 2011, 11:52
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@Zharta
Correct! I posted links and posts several times as well as a link to the draft project, but some people are stubborn!
22 September 2011, 12:37
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These retards win when the win and win when they lose. By definition, this makes them losing losers. te3tir
22 September 2011, 12:48
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Dude !! it was in the news I remember.. M14 did not have enough share and power in the government to make it pass. They had to "share" the government to appease the opposition. They were not in a position to rule on their own. (Maybe because the opposition has its own militia and more arms that the government ??? which is unthinkable in this day and age).
In fact electricity was was in R. Hariri's plan too. It's that old.
Anyway, if Aoun and his son-in-law are trying to fix the electricity, well, good for them, we encourage that despite not agreeing with their political agenda. This is their job, they are there to serve the public. It's our money that's being used not theirs.
But the issue my friend, is the way they're going about. It makes you wonder. What's the ulterior motive ?? On top of that, they threaten to withdraw, they escalate, they insult etc...
This is not healthy politics. M14 did not do that when any of their proposals did not pass..
God Bless
