Polish parliament passes a bill preventing energy price hikes in 2019

Polish parliament voted in favour of a bill that would prevent energy prices from going sharply up in 2019
Poland's Sejm in favour a bill securing energy prices at current level
Źródło: TVN24 News in English

Both houses of Polish parliament have passed a bill lowering the excise tax for electric energy and changing the transitional fee, which combined with other provisions are meant to prevent electricity price hikes in 2019. The vote was attended by 409 MPs. In favour of the government-prepared amendment were 389 representatives, 3 were against and 17 abstained. Earlier on, the Sejm rejected all of the amendments submitted by the opposition. After 2 a.m. on Saturday, the upper house (Senate) have reaffirmed the lower house decision with 76 senators backing the legislation, zero votes against and 7 abstentions.

Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP

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