Prime Minister Najib Miqati has disclosed to both the domestic and foreign public the reality of the obstruction he faced from “The Free Patriotic Movement,” which hindered the implementation of reform projects, particularly in the electricity sector. In the "accounting" he presented before his government entered the caretaker phase, Miqati seemed to echo the Aounist slogan “They didn’t let me,” as he exposed the deliberate obstruction by the Minister of Energy in rejecting an offer to supply the Deir Ammar and Zahrani power plants with 1,000 megawatts of gas energy, "with the commitment of the companies General Electric and Siemens to provide gas at a very acceptable price."
According to "Nidaa Al-Watan," Miqati clarified that the offers Lebanon received in this context were capable of "providing Lebanon with electricity generation on a 24-hour basis permanently" in the long term. He revealed that Minister of “The Free Patriotic Movement” Walid Fayad, "after commissioning a consulting office to quickly prepare the terms of reference for the bidding process, pulled the matter back from the Cabinet (the day before yesterday) without providing any justification." Additionally, Fayad also withdrew "the file related to the gasification of the Zahrani plant under an international tender involving global companies," noting that "this offer would have assisted Lebanon in the future.” Miqati concluded by asserting that he would not become a "false witness to attempts to once again bind the country to personal interests, or to handle vital files with a personal logic that has burdened the treasury with hefty costs," expressing his regret over the ongoing attempts to push the country towards suicide "because there are those who want their interests before anything else."
