The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) virtually betrayed the people when it asked to be excused from justifying Manila Electric Company's (Meralco) P4.15 per kilowatt hour power rate hike, an increase the government has approved and the highest power rate hike in Philippine history.
Rep. Elpidio Barzaga of Dasmarinas City, Chairman of the House Committee on Games and Amusements, expressed such sentiments a day after the Supreme Court denied OSG's motion seeking to be excused from filing comments on behalf of state-run Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) on the petition vs. Meralco's P4.15 per kilowatt hour power rate hike that the ERC approved but was later stayed by the High Court with a Temporary Restraining Order.
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