Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun slammed on Friday
the joint parliamentary committees’ approval of the employment of qualified candidates
who are currently contract workers at Electricite du Liban.
He told As Safir newspaper the draft law that was proposed by
Energy Minister Jebran Bassil, who is Aoun’s son-in-law, was an accurate
interpretation of a law previously approved by the parliament.
Bassil proposed to allow 700 contract workers to stand for an
official exam, out of some 2,500 employees, while the rest would become
employees at private companies under a three-month probation period.
On Thursday, the parliamentary joint committees approved a draft
law allowing EDL contract workers to sit for an exam that would allow them to
become full-time employees.
Aoun said that “this kind of work can’t go on.”
“We will not allow this issue to pass,” he added.
The joint committees’ decision created sharp differences among the
March 8 forces as Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc MPs withdrew from the session
in protest against the draft law.
On Thursday, Bassil lashed out at his allies the MPs of AMAL and
Hizbullah, demanding them to clarify their stance at the committee as they had
endorsed his proposal several times in the cabinet.
He warned that institutions are being undermined “because the
needs of state institutes are not being taken into consideration.”
“We would be uprooting the whole principle of civil service if we
decided to hire 2,500 employees -- the equivalent of one third of current state
employees,” Bassil cautioned.
“The draft law proposed today (Thursday) is telling citizens that
those who are followers of certain leaders will have the privilege of being
employed in state institutions after protesting and blocking roads,” he added.
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