FPM Delegation Meets Berri, to Hold Talks with Parliamentary Blocs
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربيةA delegation from the Free Patriotic Movement held talks on Saturday with Speaker Nabih Berri for the second time in less than a week.
“The meeting was to continue our dialogue that we launched recently at Nijmeh Square,” FPM's Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan told reporters at Ain el-Tineh.
He pointed out that the delegation addressed numerous issues with the speaker and agreed to form a committee comprised from Berri's Development and Liberation bloc and the Change and Reform bloc to tackle the upcoming stage.
A delegation from the FPM held talks with Berri on Tuesday on the sidelines of a parliamentary session to elect the parliament's bureau committee members and the parliamentary committees members.
Asked if a meeting will be held soon between Berri and FPM leader MP Michel Aoun, Kanaan said that “the meeting will happen in time.”
The FPM delegation was comprised of MPs Alain Aoun, Ziad Aswad, Simon Abi Ramia and in presence of MP Ali Bazzi.
Kanaan stressed the importance of the resumption of the legislative work.
“We will visit the rest of the parliamentary blocs to push forward our initiative,” the MP noted.
On Wednesday, a two-day parliamentary session was postponed for the sixth time over lack of quorum amid sharp rift between the March 14 alliance and Berri on its constitutionality.
The session was postponed to November 20.
The controversial legislative session is set to discuss 45 items on its agenda, the same session that has been boycotted for five times since July over differences on whether the parliament can convene amid a resigned government or not.
The previous sessions were boycotted by the March 14 coalition, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Aoun's bloc.
Miqati and the March 14 alliance argue that the parliament can only discuss urgent items amid a resigned cabinet.
Aoun's Change and Reform bloc agreed after its weekly meeting in Rabieh on Tuesday to reactivate the work of the parliament “as there are social priorities that need to be addressed.”
The bloc has boycotted previous calls by Berri to attend legislative sessions over the speaker's failure to include his bloc's items on the session's agenda.