President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri told ministers during Wednesday’s Cabinet session that “the new electoral law will be finalized before the end of February,” Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said. “There is no choice but to hold the parliamentary elections and I don’t […]
Pope Francis leads his Wednesday general audience at Paul VI auditorium hall in Vatican City. Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis repeated his appeal for people to build bridges of understanding, not walls as he marked a feast day of a Sudanese […]
Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, met on Tuesday with the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Edgar Lungu. Discussions focused on ties between both countries, particularly the economic and trade ties. “Work is underway to sign soon the bilateral agreements that have been […]
Information Minister, Melhem Riachy, said on Tuesday night “the Ministry of Information is organizing workshop of laws and there is serious discussion in the preparation of draft laws for the exemption of customs to provide some of the funds and the costs to the written […]
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil criticized as “shameful” the political parties failure to agree on a new election law for the upcoming parliamentary polls, stressing that the sought vote system must reinforce unity among the Lebanese, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday. “It is such […]
MP Serge Ter Sarkisian voiced calls on Tuesday upon President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri to “safeguard their joint visions” for Lebanon and to “preserve their consensual views” in light of the debate between political parties over an electoral law for the upcoming […]
Translator: Cynthia P. FEGHALI “One cannot wait for a house burglar,” says former Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Hussein El-Husseini, raising the Constitution’s book in the face of a dominant political class going against this Constitution: “They have become like burglars of houses. Whatever people […]
Foreign Minister and Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil clarified that an agreement on an electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary polls has not been reached as yet with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday. “A hybrid electoral law […]
Kataeb Party leader Sami Gemayel voiced his utter rejection on Monday of endorsing the controversial 1960 electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary elections even with an amended version. “If a new electoral law was not approved this week, we might head towards either the 1960 […]
Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced Monday that he has agreed with President Michel Aoun that “there will be no rift from now on at the level of the executive authority.” “I’m in daily contact with the president to discuss the various issues and problems that […]
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