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Berri Calls Wednesday Legislative Session amid LF Reservations

Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday scheduled a legislative session for Wednesday amid reservations by the Lebanese Forces over the issue of the electoral law.

The session will involve morning and evening meetings, state-run National News Agency reported.

The session's agenda will include the thorny issue of the electoral law, according to Deputy Speaker Farid Makari.

LF bloc MP George Adwan had announced earlier in the day that the LF would reject any legislative session not having the electoral law on its agenda and his colleague MP Antoine Zahra later voiced reservations over the fact that the electoral law is not the first topic on the agenda.

“We are willing to take part in a session aimed at approving the urgent laws and we believe that the financial laws are a priority but the electoral law must be on the session's agenda,” Adwan said.


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