Beirut: Severe fuel shortages and wide power outages have disabled small Lebanon, with several businesses approaching while on Friday as the top security officials to discuss the situation.
Lebanon has been for decades experiencing electricity cuts, partly because of widespread corruption and widespread.
The Mediterranean state is 6 million, including 1 million Syrian refugees near bankruptcy.
This situation deteriorated dramatically this week after the central bank decided to end the subsidy for fuel products.
The decision is likely to lead to the increase in prices of almost all commodities in Lebanon.
Moving by the central bank was rejected by the Lebanese President and the prime minister who came out who claimed they were not told before.
The main roads are jammed Friday because thousands of cars are waiting in a long line at the gas station.
People rushed to the bakery to buy bread amid some concerns might close.
“Many run out of bakeries (diesel) will close tomorrow, ” Ali Ibrahim, Chief Union Bakers, told the national news agency managed by the government.
Fuel shortages have been blamed on smuggling, stockpiling and the inability of the government who lacked money to secure the delivery of imported fuel.
President Michel Aoun was called “ extraordinary ‘the cabinet perpian to discuss the national crisis but the prime minister who left Hassan Diab, whose government resigned a year ago, refused to attend, said that the constitution limited the tasks of the caregiver cabinet.
This situation has been exacerbated by the failure of political leaders to approve the new government to map the way out of the crisis and negotiate recovery packages with international monetary funds.
Protesters in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon are closed Friday to protest power outages and disadvantages of fuel.
Earlier this week, Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar said Lebanon needed around 3,000 megawatts of electricity but produced around 750 megawatts.
The gap has been filled for decades by thousands of private generator owners who also have to cut supplies in the midst of severe diesel shortages.
People currently get an average of two hours of electricity a day from a truly corrupt state company that has a country’s coffee fee of more than $ 40 billion over the past three decades.
Among those who announced the temporary closure was City Mall, one of the largest in Lebanon.
Some hospitals have warned them will be forced to close if they are not supplied with diesel.