The Lebanese cabinet approves two aid packages to deal with the energy crisis

Jan. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The outgoing cabinet of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Nayib Mikati, has given the ‘green light’ this Wednesday to two aid packages to pay for two diesel ships and cover the cost of maintaining power plants in the framework of the energy crisis in the country .

Specifically, the Council of Ministers has approved 62 million dollars, announced at the end of 2022, to unload 66,000 tons of diesel from two ships that arrived in December. The fuel is destined for two power plants, one in the north and one in the south, the newspaper ‘L’Orient-Le Jour’ reported.

On the other hand, the cabinet has also given the ‘green light’ to 54 million dollars to cover the maintenance costs of the two power plants named above. Mikati has defended that without this measure they would have reached “at the end of the week without any oil.”

Both initiatives have been approved by the Council of Ministers despite the boycott carried out by the ministers of the Free Patriotic Movement, including the head of the Energy portfolio, Walid Fayad.