It was in the heat of the 2013 general election campaign when then finance minister Tonio Fenech labelled the Labour Party’s energy plan “Alice in Wonderland”. Eleven years later, Fenech has gone one step further in his criticism of the Electrogas power station: “I called it Alice in Wonderland… today, I call it the pantomime of Alice in Wonderland.”The fresh description came in the midst of a lively exchange between Fenech and government MPs in parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday. The committee continued with its scrutiny of the National Audit Office’s report on the Electrogas power station procurement process. When asked whether he would give the current administration advice to remove the energy subsidies and instead increase electricity prices, Fenech hit back: “Since when is government seeking my consultancy services? He insisted the IMF had also suggested the phasing-out of energy subsidies and instead replacing these with targeted support for vulnerable families.

Source: Libya Today January 30, 2024 17:19 UTC