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Cash-strapped Lebanon struggles to turn lights on for polling day
Author: AFPID: 1648809289920898200Fri, 2022-04-01 10:21 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s electricity company is charging $16 million to supply power on the day of the May 15 parliamentary polls, a sum that exceeds the overall election budget by nearly 30 percent, the interior minister said. Holding credible elections is one of the main steps Lebanon’s major donors are insisting on to deliver more assistance to the country, which is mired in a deep financial crisis fueled by endemic corruption. The state-owned Electricite du Liban (EDL) presented a quote of $16 million to the government, which is trying to provide just half a day’s worth of power to polling stations for the critical vote. “I held severa

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