Government Earmarks LBP 50 Billion for Parliamentary Elections

The Cabinet on Thursday approved all items on its agenda and decided to earmark LBP 50 billion for the May parliamentary elections, the information minister said.

“Until now, we do not have the results of the investigations into the issue of (Iraqi militia leader) Qays al-Khazali’s entry into Lebanon,” Minister Melhem Riachi added, referring to Khazali’s controversial visit to Lebanon’s border with Israel.

Riachi also announced that President Michel Aoun and Premier Saad Hariri “voiced their complete rejection of any attack on freedoms” in Lebanon.

According to the minister, the Cabinet also decided to create a national holiday for “the martyrs of the judiciary.”