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Polish MPs back plan to extend energy price freeze

07.12.2023 21:30
Polish lawmakers on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a plan to freeze energy prices for consumers in the first half of next year.
The lower house of Polands parliament in session on Thursday.
The lower house of Poland's parliament in session on Thursday.Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell

Poland's new parliamentary majority has introduced a bill to extend the freeze on electricity, gas and heat prices for households and public-sector consumers until June 30, 2024.

The lower house of parliament approved this plan in a 247-1 vote with 197 abstentions on Thursday, state news agency PAP reported.

Following some last-minute modifications to the original proposal, households, local governments, public institutions, small and medium-sized companies and farmers would be eligible for the new rules, the PAP news agency reported.

The measure now goes to the Senate, the upper house of Poland's parliament, for further debate.

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Source: IAR, PAP