Private companies can participate in the government’s rural electrification program as long as they don’t interfere with their operations, a group of electric cooperatives (ECs) said on Friday.

At a press conference in Makati City, Reynaldo Lazo, president of the Philippine Association of the Board of Directors of Rural Electric Cooperatives (Pabrec), said he and other co-op players would welcome these firms “as long as [they] will not encroach” on their operations and abuse them.

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