Civil movement activists stage sit in at Riad Solh Square in protest at tax hike

Civil movement groups staged a sit in at Riad Solh Square coinciding with the meeting of the Council of Ministers at the Grand Serail, in protest at the tax hike, NNA field reporter said on Friday.

The sit in took place in the presence of a symbolic participation of partisans and supporters of the Progressive Socialist Party, the Progressive Youth, Liberals’ Party and the Lebanese Kataeb Party.

Delivered words called for a wide participation in the move called forth on Sunday, in rejection of securing funds and revenues for the salary scale from the “pockets of citizens.”