18-04-2015 01:47 PM
Hundreds of people from the province of Diwaniyah to demand the resignation of the Minister Qassim Fahdawi from office.
With Dozens in Babil province, on Saturday, demanding the cancellation of the decision to increase electricity wages,
Babylon has launched a demonstration of street processions towards the House of Representatives office in Diwaniya, amid tight security measures also called for the elimination of corruption in government departments and accounting spoilers as well as reduce the doctors detective prices.
In Babylon, said a member of the Coordinating Committee for Civil motionless in Babylon Khaldun Babylonian during his participation in the demonstration, said that 'dozens of citizens of Babylon staged a demonstration in front of electricity Babylon Department building the center of Hilla, to denounce the decision of the Ministry of Electricity to increase electric power wages', returned the decision' to fight for the poor and low-income people '.
He stressed the Babylonian, that 'the decision to wait to apply the decision was made to absorb the anger of the street is not only', demanding 'decision to cancel definitively to impairing the lives of ordinary citizens.'
For his part, President of the Civic Democratic power in the province of Babylon peace spear in a press statement that 'the decision to raise electricity wage is the result of wrong policies of successive governments that plunged Iraq financial crises', surprising from the' government had resorted to impose financial sanctions on the Iraqi people instead of reducing the privileges three presidencies and the salaries of ministers, MPs and officials'.
For his part, Vice President of the Board of Babil province, Aqil al-Rubaie, said that 'the province of Babylon Council rejects the decision to raise the energy wages definitively to impairing the lives of poor people', called on the government 'rescinding of the decision not to wait him after he was rejected by most of the Iraqi provinces. "
The Minister of Electricity, Qassim Mohammed Fahdawi, announced in (the eighth of this April 2015), the adoption of the Council of Ministers of new rates for wages electric power consumption, noting that the goal of which is to urge citizens to rationalize energy consumption, stressing that it 'does not affect the' poor citizen and low-income people.
The House of Wasit province, announced (April 15, 2015), his rejection of the new tariff approved by the Ministry of Electricity and approved by the Cabinet last week, while stressing that Wasit has energy enough to fill the need with some neighboring provinces, threatened to carry out an unprecedented action guarantee the rights of citizens of the province.
He described the Electricity Minister Qassim Fahdawi on Thursday, the Cabinet's decision to raise pricing B'allowaqaa 'so that the citizen has the energy on the length of the day, and as he pointed out that the ministry suffers the burden of financial debt by up to $ 12 billion, and the budget can not provide these amounts, called on the government to find solutions and alternatives to provide the amount of money required in the event of cancellation of the decision to raise pricing.
It is noteworthy that for the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives announced on Thursday, the agreement with the Minister of Electricity Qassim Fahdawi to submit a recommendation to the Council of Ministers to wait to apply the decision of new rates for electricity, while confirming that the decision to raise the pricing came to repay the amounts requested from the Ministry of Electricity, the government called for the creation alternatives to provide those amounts.
Several provinces have expressed them Najaf and Dhi Qar, Diwaniyah, Wasit, rejected the new pricing for electricity, and called for reconsideration
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