Following Protests, the Kirkuk Provincial Council Reduced the Generator Price Increase to 13,000 Dinars.

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Baghdad - Arab Jerusalem: The oil-rich Governorate of Kirkuk, one of the most prominent Iraqi cities in dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, has not calmed in the past two days, owing to a local decision that set the price of Amber for electricity for civil generators, which contributed to the outbreak of popular protests throughout the city, amid the absence of the central administration of the governorate, which is conservative. The beginning of…

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In Kirkuk, an increase of 18,000 dinars per ampere for electricity used by private generators led hundreds of people to block roads. The Provincial Council reduced the price to 13,000 dinars, but the protesters were not convinced; many areas were left in darkness when the operators shut down the generators.

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On Monday, the Kirkuk Provincial Council announced that the Amber price for civil generators would be set at 13,000 dinars by the end of the current month, as part of a package of resolutions regulating the work of generators. During a session attended by the Shafaq News Agency, Council President Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Hafez said that the Council had taken decisions to regulate the work of civil generators and to process ...