Lebanon to witness total blackout tonight?

The EDL Board of Directors declared n Monday that the company will be forcibly closed until contract workers and collectors end their sit-in.

In a statement, the Board said that due to this step, power cuts are expected all across Lebanon in the next few hours.

Later in the afternoon, the EDL administration announced that it will be moving to the Zouk power plant and called on President Michel Sleiman to task concerned authorities with ridding the company’s main building of protestors. Source

Now that the EDL building in Mar Mkhayel is officially closed, when is the security forces willing to intrvene and send the clowns occupying EDL back home? If not now then when?

While many online campaigns are showing support to the contract workers, I personally support Minister Gibran Bassil in this matter. Those people were almost all hired through politicians like Berri and the alikes, and of course there’s an excess number of them now who are becaming a burden on EDL.

To me, these workers represent corruption at its best in our government, and Bassil SHOULD win his battle against them. Otherwise, workers in other sectors will follow the same path to stay in their positions and keep earning their undeserved salaries!

Photo via Marwan Tahtah from Al-Akhbar

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4 Responses to Lebanon to witness total blackout tonight?

  1. Mark July 30, 2012 at 6:34 pm #

    This would have been a great idea to grab attention if every night wasn’t already a total black out!

  2. Omar July 31, 2012 at 1:01 pm #

    Eh, Mark is right! We already suffer from huge blackouts everyday. Up to 16 hours sometimes. Besides, if Gibran Bassil was a real minister, he wouldn’t threaten anyone to cause a “blackout on lebanon”. What kind of a goverment do we have? There is no one out there to put a stop and tell him he shall be kicked out in case he even tried (Najib mikkate?). This is the goverment you (March 8) decided to choose, and it’s such a shame you couldn’t have picked someone with higher class and self respect, instead of picking some theives to steal all out money. This country needs a revolution and demand a proper goverment and to finally put aside sectarianism! We want a country without March 14 or March 8. We need a goverment to allow us to put all the behind us, and forget the painful past we’ve been through!
    Thank you!

  3. lila July 31, 2012 at 2:30 pm #

    It’s all a political game, the contract workers are there protesting to earn their salaries and their deserved salaries ,and which the government is stealing from them ,not just from us though electricity cuts ,then comes Bassil ,he blackmails everyone by threatening the country to cause more blackouts ,I’ll sit in the dark and still support the protesters because pain caused by the GRAND THIEVES in our goverment made me insensitive to it ,because those protesters aren’t protesting just for their salaries, they’re also making us a favor to make this electricity problem in this country be a REAL EMBARRASSMENT ,EVERY TOURIST IS LEAVING THE COUNTRY

  4. lila July 31, 2012 at 2:34 pm #

    Another thing ,I know that this is not right to tell but the only way is to either peacefully elect independent politicians or else make war ,there’s no other choice ,this is how it’s done, you cannot remain silent forever ,the population must raid all the electricity plants in Zouk,Jiyyeh, not just the building in Mar Mikhael ,this is how you make yourselves heard, but then again el lebnene sha3eb mute , they give you the orders and they nodd like happy sheep 🙂

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