Bassil from Sidon: We should stop polemics, work for election law that ensures stability

Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, said on Sunday during a tour in South Lebanon that there will be no political or economic stability without the approval of an election law.

“We need a political agreement on the electoral law to reassure each other and give each party the right to political representation,” Minister Bassil said, calling for an end to controversies in favor of a political agreement.

The municipality of Sidon organized a popular reception to the Minister, in the presence of the city’s notables and two members of “Change and Reform” bloc MPs Ziad Assouad and Amal Abou Zeid.

Expressing his satisfaction for his presence in the capital of South Lebanon, which he believes has a greater social, economic and popular burden on its resources in the context of the Palestinian cause and the presence of a large number of Palestinian refugees in camps, Bassil said: “It is not the responsibility of Sidon or our Palestinian brothers, but rather the responsibility of the international community that caused the exodus of Palestinians from their land without finding a solution for them to return.”

He concluded by wishing the approval of an law on administrative decentralization