Vidal: 'Power cuts in public areas raise insecurity'

Deputy Mayor for Buenos Aires City María Eugenia Vidal disclosed this morning that she is to have a meeting with the Edesur and Edenor presidents in order to ensure city lighting across the capital city is restored.

Vidal said that the meeting was foreseen to take place on next Monday, and hopes to find a solution to the issue.

“They’ve started to cut off the lighting to the City and it’s a situation that worries us. We have planned a meeting with the two presidents of the electricity companies for Monday,” the official stated in a radio interview this morning.

Likewise, Vidal commented on the fact that for two nights in a row many public areas have been left without light and said: “it generates insecurity over public safety.”

The Obelisk, Rivadavia Park and the Spaniards' Monument, among many other areas across the capital, were left in the dark, due to the electricity companies suspending the service because of the City government’s failure to pay the last lighting bill.

The City Government is said to owe some 51 million pesos to the companies, a bill made higher by the fact that the National Government removed subsidies from city lighting at the end of 2011.