Berri calls for legislative session to extend municipalities term
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Thursday for a legislative session that will take place on Tuesday and during which the MPs will vote on a draft law for extending the municipalities' term.
Two draft laws have been submitted by Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab and MP Sajih Atiyeh. The first aims at extending the municipalities' term by 4 months, and the second extends the municipal councils' term by a year.
MPs from the Progressive Socialist Party and the Free Patriotic Movement said they will attend the session and vote for extending the municipalities' term, although Parliament cannot legislate before the election of a president.
The Lebanese Forces party, for its part, said it won't attend the session.
Its leader Samir Geagea said Thursday that the bloc will convene to take the appropriate steps after Berri called for a legislative session.
"Parliament is an electoral body and cannot legislate," he said.
The Parliament bureau convened later on Thursday to agree on the legislative session's agenda, including the two draft laws regarding the extension of the municipalities' term.
"The extension of term is technical to avoid vacuum," Bou Saab said after the parliament bureau's session, adding that in case funding is secured, the municipal elections can still take place.
13 April 2023, 18:25
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Enough of this dinosaur, subservient to the Basij, dean of political mafia, and a disgrace phony heir to Imam Saddr. Economic troubles started after he blocked the government to prevent International tribunal and protect Hizb assassins; bankrupting Downtown Beirut, ruining Lebanon reputation for business and tourism, sacrificing our democracy and sovereignty, and made our politicians the laughing stock of the world. He and other political mafia are the reason diaspora and the world have abandoned Lebanon, and hundreds of thousands will never return or visit Lebanon. Disarming HizbIran and getting rid of the political mafia are a prerequisite for salvations. Otherwise, all is in vain many bright minds shredding their passports!
14 April 2023, 17:16
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The biggest one of them all, and I hail from the South. No wonder he's been siting there for the past 30 years.
I told you guys a story long time. Can't remember what year but i was visiting in the summer and I happened to be at some relative's house. The Mokhtar of the town stopped by as he's a relative (all small town are somehow related), as the conversation went on, politics came into it habit and he literally said, that "No Deal Ever gets done in Lebanon without it passing Berri's desk first". And there you have it.
