President Leonel Fernandez closed the Blackout Reduction Program (PRA), which sought to reduce non-paying consumption of power, and has ordered its assets to be transferred to the State-Run Electricity Companies (CDEEE). This move was authorized in Decree 421-09. The move comes two months after TV journalist Nuria Piera exposed the way in which a large part of the funds allocated to the office were being distributed at the director’s discretion for the benefit of his friends and relatives.