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Parliament Bureau postpones decision on legislative session as FPM declares boycott
[An Nahar] The Parliament Bureau on Monday postponed taking a decision regarding a controversial legislative session that Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... had intended to call for, as the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... declared its boycott of any such session. "The discussions will be continued next Monday," Parliament Secretary-General Adnan Daher said after a meeting for the Parliament Bureau on Monday. MTV had earlier reported that MP Alain Aoun of the FPM would inform the Bureau that the Strong  ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...bloc will not take part in the legislative session. The legislative session's agenda includes 81 articles, most notably the capital control law and the extension of the terms of directors general and security chiefs, topped by General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, who reaches the age of retirement next month. FPM chief Jebran Bassil had told al-Akhbar newspaper that the Strong Lebanon bloc "certainly will not take part" in the session, noting that "what applies to the caretaker cabinet amid the presidential void also applies to parliament, which is considered an electoral body except for emergency and utmost necessity situations." The FPM’s boycott and the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... ’ rejection mean that the session will not be attended by the country’s biggest two Christian blocs, which might push Berri to refrain from calling for the session. Forty-six MPs — the LF bloc, the Kataeb bloc, the Change bloc and independents — had on Saturday declared their boycott of the session, vowing to file appeals against its resolutions. Posted by: Fred 2023-02-14 |
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