Jumblat says it's time to dismiss 'wanderer' Fayyad
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat asked Saturday for the dismissal of Energy Minister Walid Fayyad.
In a tweet Jumblat said "it is time to dismiss the minister", sarcastically accusing him of wandering through capitals, restaurants and nightclubs.
The PSP chief said the ministry is ruled by the Free Patriotic Movement party, slamming the presidency and the "son-in-law," FPM chief Jebran Bassil.
"Isn't it time for the Prime Minister to reveal that there won't be any Jordanian electricity or any World Bank funding, unless a radical reform is made at the ministry of energy," Jumblat asked.
The World Bank still hasn't financed a Lebanon’s U.S.-backed plan for importing gas and electricity from Egypt and Jordan via Syria.
"It is still studying the plan’s political feasibility," Fayyad said, adding that “the ball is now in the court of the U.S. administration and the bank.”
Meanwhile, the cash-strapped state is struggling to purchase fuel for its power stations.
With state power effectively non-existent, many rely on private generators, but prices have increased after the government lifted fuel subsidies.
23 April 2022, 22:25
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"Walid Fayad, Lebanon's energy minister, said the deal would not come into effect immediately as the government was still working with the World Bank to finalise financing arrangements, the details of which should be clear in two months."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanon-jordan-agree-bring-electricity-through-syria-2022-01-26/
24 April 2022, 09:35
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Typical Lebanese mentality and the sick logic of the herd. If you criticize one it means you belong to an opposite camp.
The story was about Jumblat but in my opinion and since you bring up Berri and Bassil, Berri is equally or more corrupt than Jumblat and Bassil is trying to catch up with them at a good pace only because he was a little late for the show.
24 April 2022, 21:10
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awireless.... do not cross the Southern border. stay on your side for we do not need hypocrites like you.
25 April 2022, 14:23
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Cancelling confessionalism is impossible as long as one secterian militia has weapons. This would take us straight to civil war.
Many of us look forward to a secular system in Lebanon, but it is impossible under those conditions.
