Salam Concerned over his Govt.'s 'Democratic Performance'
Prime Minister Tammam Salam expressed concern over the performance of his government during 2015, saying that it has “not achieved much”, reported the daily An Nahar on Tuesday.
He told the daily: “I am not at ease because my cabinet is under-performing.”
“We are eating away at our democratic system,” he lamented.
The government witnessed throughout the year various political obstacles that have been linked one way or the other to the vacuum in the presidency.
Various disputes among its political blocs have hindered the approval of decrees and resulted in months of paralysis.
Salam himself had refrained from calling the government to session on numerous occasions out of concern that the cabinet would be forced to resign.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise candidate have thwarted the polls.
In the absence of a head of state, the cabinet assumes the role of the president until a new one is elected.
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