Berri to Call for Legislative Session Next Week
Speaker Nabih Berri is expected to invite lawmakers for a legislative session next week to discuss the long-stalled wage scale file shall the Joint Parliamentary Committees complete deliberations on the issues, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.
Berri is expected to schedule the meeting on Wednesday, said the daily.
The Joint Parliamentary Committees approved in a meeting yesterday the new wage scale lists of the armed forces and public school teachers while the thorny issue of funding and reforms was postponed to a Thursday session.
The Speaker emphasized during a meeting with lawmakers a day earlier, that the scale must be approved because it is a right for the people.
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