NewsWhore
03-15-2012, 01:50 PM
Following a meeting with the vice-president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Celso Marranzini yesterday Wednesday 14 March, National Business Council (Conep) president Manuel Diez Cabral said that the national electricity sector should be in private hands. At present, the government runs the three power distribution companies n EdeSur, EdeNorte and EdeSur.
Diez Cabral said that while there was nothing concrete as far as legislative proposals are concerned, he believed there was a definite need for a thorough study that would explain just how to shift the electric sector from the public to the private domain and remove this burden from the state's finances. He said that the process would be very difficult given the huge deficits and other financial as well as social issues which currently handcuff the CDEEE. He was emphatic in his recognition of the advances made over the past two and a half years.
As reported by Listin Diario, Celso Marranzini said that he had not taken on the job at the CDEEE in order to privatize the sector, but to manage it and restore the value that the distributors had lost, as well as the service that the population has stopped receiving. He said that any decision to return the electricity system to the private sector would have to be taken by the government.
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Diez Cabral said that while there was nothing concrete as far as legislative proposals are concerned, he believed there was a definite need for a thorough study that would explain just how to shift the electric sector from the public to the private domain and remove this burden from the state's finances. He said that the process would be very difficult given the huge deficits and other financial as well as social issues which currently handcuff the CDEEE. He was emphatic in his recognition of the advances made over the past two and a half years.
As reported by Listin Diario, Celso Marranzini said that he had not taken on the job at the CDEEE in order to privatize the sector, but to manage it and restore the value that the distributors had lost, as well as the service that the population has stopped receiving. He said that any decision to return the electricity system to the private sector would have to be taken by the government.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)