A lawmaker on Monday urged President Benigno Aquino 3rd to certify the bills that seek the review and repeal of the disputed Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) as urgent to step into the highly-deregulated energy industry.

Rep. Fernando Hicap of Anakpawis party list, author of House Bill 255 seeking for the repeal of Epira, said that there is no other culprit in the soaring rates in electricity but the law, which essentially privatized and deregulated the power industry.

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