Parliament Re-Elects Members of its Committees
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Parliament convened on Tuesday to elect members of its various committees, as well as members of its bureau.
It re-elected the members of the committees and renewed the terms of its treasurers, reported al-Jadeed television.
Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra replaced Mustaqbal MP Robert Fadel in the finance committee.
Fadel in turn replaced LF MP Fadi Karam in the economics committee.
The session was held without incident or political bickering that had marred committee sessions.
The meeting was held with the Change and Reform bloc's approval of a proposal to “preserve the current balance of political blocs within the committees,” reported al-Joumhouria newspaper.
"The parliament's Secretariat members, heads, members and rapporteurs of the parliamentary committees are composed of political blocs and different sectarian affiliations. It is in no one's interest to reconsider the issue due to the current circumstances. It is better now to keep things as they are," said MP Michel Moussa prior to the parliamentary session.
The representation of blocs at the committees is proportional to their representation at parliament.
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20 October 2015, 09:12
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Divide and rule is an old strategy and still in use in the middle east and in Lebanon, by stigmatizing people based on their religion or ethnic background you ensure the division. The only profiteer are the foreign powers who have control on the local leaders. Disconnect Religion from politics , equal rights for all population,one national education system and the people elect ( and not the parlement) the president will be the right solution. In this way if the people will fight then it is because of a lost football game ...
21 October 2015, 05:11
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Agreed with the first part of your comment and disagreed with the last part.
You declare our people are Sectarian which is the reason our politicians are able to divide and concur (I agree with that). Then you say those same Sectarians should be entrusted with electing the President (Disagree).
20 October 2015, 09:47
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The Change and Reform bloc has meanwhile approved a proposal to “preserve the current balance of political blocs within the committees.”
So Aoun approves the committees of an illegal parliament.
20 October 2015, 10:06
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What kind of logic is that?! The FPM considers the Parliament illegitimate or illegal or whatever yet they participate in the elections of the Parliamentary committees and they head some of them. Strange logic indeed...!
20 October 2015, 13:56
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and for that reason as explained by mowaten, you got penalized 11 times :)))
20 October 2015, 11:46
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7 minutes ago Al-Jadeed: Parliament re-elected the members of its committees and renewed the tenure of its treasurers.
hahaha! It is perfectly legitimate and legal to "extend" the term of the 'Illegal" parliament's committees and tenure of its treasurers.
Pity the nation.... seriously! Pity Aoun....!
20 October 2015, 10:25
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Michel Aoun and his family party members are capable of going to parliament and electing committees but are not capable of doing the same when it comes to presidential elections. Must be KSA that is pressuring them to do that...
20 October 2015, 15:50
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a complete farce, the appearance of a representative Parliament without the messiness of going through an election. Then they have the balls to organize into committees! To do what?? There is no executive branch of government to enforce anything that they may agree upon.
Lebanon, the land of consensus, which means that every politician is a majority of one. One contrary vote vetoes the will of the other 99%. Not a representative democracy, and not even close to it.
20 October 2015, 16:14
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"It is better now to keep things as they are," said MP Michel Moussa prior to the parliamentary session.
But it is not working! Why keep things as they are! This is crazy...
