Caretaker Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil responded to the statements made by caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, saying: “no one is keener than us on the interests of South Lebanon, which must not be monopolized by any party.”
He added that they have been working with MP Nawaf al-Moussawi on improving the power grid, noting that ministers of the Free Patriotic Movement were the ones who worked on it.
Speaking to LBCI’s Nharkom Said, Abi Khalil said that “it was not them who hindered the budgets and payments for contractors,” stressing that their project is to build the power plants rather than obstruction.
“We are the ones who contacted the cabinet’s secretary general to object over the error made in the decision concerning the free ship and we demanded to be corrected, so let’s put an end to this bidding war,” he stated.