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Protesters angry at the lack of electricity flocking to Tahrir Square in Baghdad (Dif-Source)
Friday 31-07-2015
Freedom Square in Baghdad
Twilight News / began hundreds of activists and citizens angered by the lack of electricity service to flow on Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on Friday afternoon to demand the government provide energy and other services.
He told activists Twilight News that the crowd began to flow on the scene in order to claim the provision of electricity and an end to administrative and financial corruption rampant in the country.
They noted that the security forces are harassing demonstrators and prevent the arrival of a lot of them from the Karkh district, but they reported that a series of security measures and locked in Tahrir Square
The prevailing feelings of resentment across the country, despite repeated promises by the Iraqi government to end the crisis of chronic power shortages and repeated interruptions for long periods.
And increasing population curse on poor electricity service in the summer where the temperature exceeds fifty Celsius.
Successive Iraqi governments have spent money on the electricity sector amounts of money over the past decade but the frequent interruptions come on top of complaints from citizens who are also protesting against corruption and poverty.
The federal government has decided to disable the official working across the country on Thursday and Sunday because of high temperatures In a move to absorb popular anger in the central and southern governorates due to declining hours of processing power.
He called many of the activists and journalists on personal pages in "Facebook" to participate in the demonstration, which confirmed they come for "criticizing the officials failed to provide power Alcirbeia", also confirmed that the demonstration, which will be launched in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, "a popular and not with political overtones."
They noted that the demonstration "is not critical to the Minister of electricity as from the Sunni component, it is critical for all officials in successive governments on Iraq (Allawi, al-Jaafari, Maliki, Abadi) for failing to provide electrical power."
Hosted on Wednesday Committees energy and integrity in the House of Representatives, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Bahaa al-Araji and finance ministers Hoshyar Zebari and Oil Adel Abdul-Mahdi, electricity Qassim Fahdawi about the power crisis and provide fuel for the stations and finance.
And the speaker of parliament tasked the competent committees to prepare a comprehensive report on the electric power and those responsible for the failure to provide electricity situation, while heading a coalition of state law to collect Twaqa to dismiss Electricity Minister Qassim Fahdawi from office.
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Friday 31-07-2015
Freedom Square in Baghdad
Twilight News / began hundreds of activists and citizens angered by the lack of electricity service to flow on Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on Friday afternoon to demand the government provide energy and other services.
He told activists Twilight News that the crowd began to flow on the scene in order to claim the provision of electricity and an end to administrative and financial corruption rampant in the country.
They noted that the security forces are harassing demonstrators and prevent the arrival of a lot of them from the Karkh district, but they reported that a series of security measures and locked in Tahrir Square
The prevailing feelings of resentment across the country, despite repeated promises by the Iraqi government to end the crisis of chronic power shortages and repeated interruptions for long periods.
And increasing population curse on poor electricity service in the summer where the temperature exceeds fifty Celsius.
Successive Iraqi governments have spent money on the electricity sector amounts of money over the past decade but the frequent interruptions come on top of complaints from citizens who are also protesting against corruption and poverty.
The federal government has decided to disable the official working across the country on Thursday and Sunday because of high temperatures In a move to absorb popular anger in the central and southern governorates due to declining hours of processing power.
He called many of the activists and journalists on personal pages in "Facebook" to participate in the demonstration, which confirmed they come for "criticizing the officials failed to provide power Alcirbeia", also confirmed that the demonstration, which will be launched in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, "a popular and not with political overtones."
They noted that the demonstration "is not critical to the Minister of electricity as from the Sunni component, it is critical for all officials in successive governments on Iraq (Allawi, al-Jaafari, Maliki, Abadi) for failing to provide electrical power."
Hosted on Wednesday Committees energy and integrity in the House of Representatives, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Bahaa al-Araji and finance ministers Hoshyar Zebari and Oil Adel Abdul-Mahdi, electricity Qassim Fahdawi about the power crisis and provide fuel for the stations and finance.
And the speaker of parliament tasked the competent committees to prepare a comprehensive report on the electric power and those responsible for the failure to provide electricity situation, while heading a coalition of state law to collect Twaqa to dismiss Electricity Minister Qassim Fahdawi from office.
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