Two ministers file appeal against two cabinet decrees

Caretaker ministers Hector Hajjar and Issam Sharafeddine on Wednesday filed an appeal before the State Shoura Council against two decrees related to the Costa Brava landfill, al-Jadeed TV said.

Speaking to al-Jadeed on Tuesday, the media adviser of caretaker PM Najib Mikati, Fares Gemayel, stressed that “the decrees are constitutional and cannot be appealed.”

“This issue is out of the question and I don’t know why they have nostalgia for wars and problems,” Gemayel added.

FPM chief Jebran Bassil has decried that “around 10 decrees issued by Cabinet were signed in a flagrant way that eliminated the president’s position.”

“They did not only undermine the presidential post, but also the republic, the Lebanese entity and everything related to partnership and the National Pact,” Bassil added.

Mikati and the FPM have been engaged in a war of words over signatures related to governmental decrees amid the ongoing presidential void.

The FPM has repeatedly warned against holding any caretaker cabinet session during presidential vacuum, arguing that any decree issued would require the signatures of all ministers.