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A senior official for "Today's News": new rates for electricity reduced government support from 92% to 8%
4/21/2015
BAGHDAD - News today, a senior Iraqi official revealed on Tuesday that the new electricity pricing revealed by the competent ministry recently include reducing government support for energy from 92% to 8%. He told the official "Today's News", directed that the government support for the electricity sector currently covers more than 90% of operating expenses, stressing that the Ministry of Electricity has adopted to reduce this support to the level of 8%. 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, while between it aims to urge citizens to rationalize energy consumption, stressed that it "does not affect the" citizen of the poor and disabled limited income. And announced several local governments, including Diwaniyah, Basra, Wasit, Karbala, Najaf, Dhi Qar, Maysan, rejected the new pricing for electricity, and called for reconsideration. He described Fahdawi Cabinet's decision to raise the pricing as "unrealistic" to the citizen has the energy on the length of the day, and as pointed out that the ministry suffers from 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 the provision of financial amounts required in the event of cancellation of the decision to raise pricing. It also announced the Commission on oil and parliamentary power, 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, and in our neighborhood, confirmed that the decision to raise the pricing came to repay the amounts requested from the Ministry of Electricity, the government called for the creation of the provision of such amounts alternatives . And the voice of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Saturday to demand the government's decision to wait to see the new pricing of electric power
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4/21/2015
BAGHDAD - News today, a senior Iraqi official revealed on Tuesday that the new electricity pricing revealed by the competent ministry recently include reducing government support for energy from 92% to 8%. He told the official "Today's News", directed that the government support for the electricity sector currently covers more than 90% of operating expenses, stressing that the Ministry of Electricity has adopted to reduce this support to the level of 8%. 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, while between it aims to urge citizens to rationalize energy consumption, stressed that it "does not affect the" citizen of the poor and disabled limited income. And announced several local governments, including Diwaniyah, Basra, Wasit, Karbala, Najaf, Dhi Qar, Maysan, rejected the new pricing for electricity, and called for reconsideration. He described Fahdawi Cabinet's decision to raise the pricing as "unrealistic" to the citizen has the energy on the length of the day, and as pointed out that the ministry suffers from 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 the provision of financial amounts required in the event of cancellation of the decision to raise pricing. It also announced the Commission on oil and parliamentary power, 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, and in our neighborhood, confirmed that the decision to raise the pricing came to repay the amounts requested from the Ministry of Electricity, the government called for the creation of the provision of such amounts alternatives . And the voice of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Saturday to demand the government's decision to wait to see the new pricing of electric power
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