Walid Al-Sahlani, a member of the Parliamentary Electricity and Energy Committee, urged the government and political forces that will make the decision on Monday to form a specialized committee of members who possess scientific and technical characteristics. This committee would develop a new vision and strategy for the reality of electricity, which would be managed from outside the ministry and even outside parliament.
“The electricity crisis has continued for many years without the previous and current governments finding any solutions for it, and every year we face popular protests in all governorates,” Al-Sahlani said in a statement to /. “A realistic and real solution must be found in order to limit its continuation at least through the concerted and mobilized efforts of everyone.” Al-Sahlani also said that the government would “find no solutions for it.”
He continued, “The electricity file at the moment needs a new vision and strategy through activities carried out by the state in general, and the political forces that make the decision must assume full responsibility before the Iraqi people to address the intractable crisis, by taking a decision to form a specialized committee of members with scientific and technical characteristics that would develop a new vision and strategy for the reality of electricity, to be managed from outside the ministry and even outside parliament, and grant it great and broad powers.” “The electricity file at the present
“The mistakes that continued over the past two decades regarding the electricity crisis, we are held accountable for the mistakes and not for the delay, as it represents a negative aspect,” he said. “For example, but not limited to, the delay in installing the Khairat station, which produces 2800 megawatts,” he said. “The mistakes that continued over the past two decades regarding the electricity crisis.”
